From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ip15.shellworld.net ([64.49.204.174] helo=server2.shellworld.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HUw6A-00048x-00 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:35:18 -0400 Received: from CHIHUAHUAD1 (adsl-70-241-74-58.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [70.241.74.58]) by server2.shellworld.net (8.13.1/8.12.8) with SMTP id l2O2ZGxc054440 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:35:17 GMT (envelope-from nick@nickgawronski.com) Message-ID: <000b01c76dbd$0f0bda30$250110ac@CHIHUAHUAD1> From: "Nick Gawronski" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <2007-03-17T12-56-17@devnull.michael-prokop.at><001d01c768d3$64c8ae10$250110ac@CHIHUAHUAD1><20070317211243.GA21012@localhost.localdomain><002b01c768ee$2ba00140$250110ac@CHIHUAHUAD1><2007-03-18T15-54-56@devnull.michael-prokop.at><1174248183.3368.23.camel@chopin><2007-03-18T23-36-32@devnull.michael-prokop.at> <20070318231613.GB83329@fajrero> Subject: Re: grml spelling issues Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:35:03 -0500 Organization: Chihuahua Radio MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nick Gawronski , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:35:18 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:35:18 -0000 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" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 6:16 PM Subject: Re: grml spelling issues > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 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- >> -- >> ,'"`. http://www.michael-prokop.at/ >> ( grml.org -? Linux Live-CD for texttool-users and sysadmins >> `._,' http://www.grml.org/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFF/cg8TsjaYASMWKQRAhxkAJ91wnuw8mwAgOwvKsQwNuyY7iXsPwCfWpmB > pgaKTf15wBZaRgrGpF9auyc= > =JcHS > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >