Re: grml spelling issues

["Albert E. Sten-Clanton" <albert.e.sten_clanton@verizon.net>]

If brltty-flite disappears, would that eliminate using a braille display with GRML?  If so, could it be replace?  Though I'm not lucky enough to have a braille display for my Linux box, I often wish I did.  If the proposed change would indeed eliminate that choice, than I'd certainly recommend against it:  I doubt the improvement either in speech or shrinkage would warrant it.  I'm sorry if my comments here are way off the mark, but it seems best to raise the question.  Thanks!

Al
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Prokop" <mika@grml.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: grml spelling issues


* Hynek Hanke <hanke@brailcom.org> wrote:
> Michael Prokop pí?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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