From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from beaver.sibername.com ([64.15.155.210]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Hz26z-0006AG-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:04:33 -0400 Received: from [24.226.68.228] (helo=tenstac) by beaver.sibername.com with smtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1Hz26T-0004kO-MI for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:04:01 -0400 Message-ID: <005d01c7af02$8f0bf770$ab00a8c0@tenstac> From: "Doug Sutherland" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <4671103A.4000406@clearwire.net><50A24A5B7FA04E2E8748714BF3222FEE@Michelle><46719230.4040601@clearwire.net> Subject: Re: HardWare Synthesizers Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:06:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - beaver.sibername.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - braille.uwo.ca X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - proficio.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "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: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:04:33 -0000 Hart said: the IBM TTS which sounds like eliquence Because is IS eloquence. This is evident when you peruse the internals, and the naming of stuff like eci.h header, even more revealing the older versions announced that they WERE eloquence engine when initialized, rather than IBM TTS, after it was modified in later versions. Most of IBMs work was on speech recognition not synthesis. From my working with IBM TTS years ago, it is obvious that it was a license of eloquence to build the TTS engine. A fine sounding engine indeed. I would venture to say its the best in software synthesis, and worlds apart from festival and derivatives like flite etc. -- Doug