Re: grml spelling issues

["Nick Gawronski" <nick@nickgawronski.com>]

Hi, flite sounds good but it would be nice if someone somewhere could put up 
some small wav files of what espeak sounds like so we can take a listen to 
it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler Spivey" <tspivey@pcdesk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: grml spelling issues


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> I have a modified espeak-generic.conf at
> http://tspivey.freeshell.org/espeak-generic.conf. You might want to
> modify it again so that it goes through the sox play command, since the
> one I have sort of chops - I'm not sure about the latest version of
> espeak. I think the blank line deletion still stands - speech dispatcher
> sometimes sends just blank lines to espeak, which causes it to pause.
> - - Tyler
>
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:45:10PM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
>> * Hynek Hanke <hanke@brailcom.org> wrote:
>> > Michael Prokop p??e v Ne 18. 03. 2007 v 15:59 +0100:
>>
>> >> "I however find Espeak does not sound quite as clear to me.  I like
>> >> the current synthesizer that is being used."
>> >> What benefit would espeak bring compared to eflite?
>>
>> > Compared to eFlite, eSpeak is a multi-lingual synthesizer.
>> > Although the quality of languages is very variable, it is possible to
>> > use it for MANY languages in a way that it is understandable (useful).
>> > The span is even wider than documented, because for example for Czech 
>> > it
>> > is possible to use it with the Polish voice and understand it. I 
>> > believe
>> > this is the case for other close languages too. And I'm amazed on how
>> > fast voices for new languages are being added, although of only basic
>> > quality. eFlite is nowhere near this...
>>
>> Ok, thanks.
>>
>> >> Disclaimer: I can't promise anything regarding adding espeak. We are
>> >> running out of space so the ISO fits within 700MB on grml always...
>>
>> > If necessary for disk space reasons, I highly recommend dropping Flite
>> > in favor of eSpeak.
>>
>> Ok. When I'm removing libflite1, besides flite and eflite also
>> brltty-flite and speech-dispatcher will disappear. This would bring
>> me >15MB of disk space whereas espeak needs only 1200kB at total, so
>> definitely appreciated from my side.
>>
>> But I've to take a look at espeak and its configuration first of
>> all. Any help and feedback regarding espeak's configuration on grml
>> is highly welcome.
>>
>> -mika-
>> -- 
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>>
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