good software synth

good software synth

[Juan Hernandez]

Hello everyone,

I was just wondering if someone could tell me of any good software speech synths, free or not.  I need to install linux on my laptop, and I'd like to use software speech.  thanks in advanced.

Re: good software synth

[David Csercsics]

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>I was just wondering if someone could tell me of any good software =
>speech synths, free or not.  I need to install linux on my laptop, and =
>I'd like to use software speech.  thanks in advanced.

Well there is the dectalk software from www.fonix.com which is not
free. If you're wanting a free synth there's flite which is the default
for speech dispatcher and festival works with speech dispatcher as well.
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Re: good software synth

[Tom Moore]

Hi guys. I've had good experience using flite as my software synth. Is
there any way I can raise the volume on the synth? It doesn't seem to be
all that lod compared to the rest of the audio that comes out of the sound
card.
Thanks.

Tom

Re: good software synth

[Sean M McMahon]

While we're kind of on the subject of synths, is there any kind of 
documentation which explains what the different peramiters in 
/proc/speakup do?  Some are self explanitory like punc_level and rate. 
Others are a little harder to figure out like jiffy_delta and synth_direct 
etc.  Sean

Re: good software synth

[Erik Heil]

Hi their.  Synth_direct is when you want to send data directlry to the 
synth.  For exampke, suppose you want to increase the inflection of the 
Dectalk Express. You would cat the parameters to 
/proc/speakup/synth_direct, since Speakup doesn't have an equivellent 
function.  Not sure about the other values though.

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