software TTS

software TTS

[Darragh]

Hello, I'm looking for good software TTS.  I don't mind paying for it at this stage as the apollo sounds horrible in my opinion and when using a laptop its not always practicle to plug it in.  

I'd like something that I can use on a few applications.  At the moment I use/try depending on my mood Gnopernicus, Speakup, Yasr, Emacspeak, BrlTTY, and in a few weeks the SuSE sbl packages.

So far I've tried Flite, F lite, Festivle and of course the apollo but all have sounded terrible or have been very sluggish.  I've been told about a TTS package from ibm called ttsynth that works with gnopernicus and sbl so I'm thinking of buying that but I'd like your input first.  Does it work with some or all of the above packages and is it responsive in the console and in Gnome?  

I've had the IBM viavoice package for years but never got it running.  Today I almost got there however I had problems trying to find libXm.so.1 so I think that's going to be left for another very quiet day.  

Thanks.

Darragh

Re: software TTS

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

So far, I've found my copy of ttsynth to be useless.  It appears to be
Viavoice under a new name with few (if any) changes.  It still seems to
require outdated libs to get the utilities to run, and there isn't any
documentation on the utilities included.

My problems could be the seller, so where do you plan to get it?

          Kenny

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:36:00PM +0100, Darragh wrote:
> Hello, I'm looking for good software TTS.  I don't mind paying for it at this stage as the apollo sounds horrible in my opinion and when using a laptop its not always practicle to plug it in.  
> 
> I'd like something that I can use on a few applications.  At the moment I use/try depending on my mood Gnopernicus, Speakup, Yasr, Emacspeak, BrlTTY, and in a few weeks the SuSE sbl packages.
> 
> So far I've tried Flite, F lite, Festivle and of course the apollo but all have sounded terrible or have been very sluggish.  I've been told about a TTS package from ibm called ttsynth that works with gnopernicus and sbl so I'm thinking of buying that but I'd like your input first.  Does it work with some or all of the above packages and is it responsive in the console and in Gnome?  
> 
> I've had the IBM viavoice package for years but never got it running.  Today I almost got there however I had problems trying to find libXm.so.1 so I think that's going to be left for another very quiet day.  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Darragh
> 
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Re: software TTS

[hank smith]

where can I hear what the fada voices sound like?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Haneman" <Bill.Haneman@Sun.COM>
To: "Darragh" <lists@digitaldarragh.com>
Cc: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>; <gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 4:04 AM
Subject: Re: software TTS


> Darragh:
>
> I've used gnome-speech drivers for Theta with very good results.  So far 
> this seems to be the best choice for quality, cost, and reliability so 
> far.  However, I don't know what the availability of the Theta voices is 
> like at the moment, as Cepstral has moved to a new product which they call 
> 'Swift'.  Ask Will Walker about whether the gnome-speech Theta drivers 
> work with Swift...
>
> Bill
>
> Darragh wrote:
>
>>Hello, I'm looking for good software TTS.  I don't mind paying for it at 
>>this stage as the apollo sounds horrible in my opinion and when using a 
>>laptop its not always practicle to plug it in.
>>I'd like something that I can use on a few applications.  At the moment I 
>>use/try depending on my mood Gnopernicus, Speakup, Yasr, Emacspeak, 
>>BrlTTY, and in a few weeks the SuSE sbl packages.
>>
>>So far I've tried Flite, F lite, Festivle and of course the apollo but all 
>>have sounded terrible or have been very sluggish.  I've been told about a 
>>TTS package from ibm called ttsynth that works with gnopernicus and sbl so 
>>I'm thinking of buying that but I'd like your input first.  Does it work 
>>with some or all of the above packages and is it responsive in the console 
>>and in Gnome?
>>I've had the IBM viavoice package for years but never got it running. 
>>Today I almost got there however I had problems trying to find libXm.so.1 
>>so I think that's going to be left for another very quiet day.
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Darragh
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Re: software TTS

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

The page is completely accessible with elinks in a text console.  I had
no problem with the demos or buying voices.  The site was so easy to use
with elinks I ended up buying 3 voices.

          Kenny

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 08:31:56AM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi,
> >From Windows the page is very accessible. From Mozilla under Linux it is
> a little tricky to use.
> It takes a little time, but I did manage to figure it out using
> gnopernicus and mozilla.
> 
> On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 18:31 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > Hi Hank:
> > 
> > That's "Theta", T H E T A.  Cepstral, the company that produces them, is 
> > now producing voices for their new engine, called 'Swift'.  You can hear 
> > demos of the voices here:
> > 
> > http://www.cepstral.com/demos/
> > 
> > I am not sure how accessible that web page is, but it looks like a 
> > standard forms page to me.
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> > hank smith wrote:
> > 
> > > where can I hear what the fada voices sound like? 
> > 
> > 
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