From: "hank smith" <hanksmith4@earthlink.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: A small software synthesiser, espeak
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 21:26:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00e401c65c56$f2758a10$4100a8c0@home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY103-DAV751322BAC3E607B7BD0D08ECF0@phx.gbl>
can I hear a sample of this synth?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Whapples" <mikster4@msn.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 2:41 PM
Subject: A small software synthesiser, espeak
>I came across this, and it might be interesting for those of you trying to
>find a small, high quality, open source software speech synthesiser.
> Espeak (http://espeak.sourceforge.net), it is definitely smaller than some
> of the alternatives at 350kb for the installation. The quality is
> understandable (it supposedly uses a different algorithm to some other
> open source ones so sounds different), but not to the same level as some
> commercial ones. Also it has some other language support, but that is in
> early stages supposedly.
> I have managed to get it working on my laptop with speech-dispatcher with
> a modified generic.conf file, and getting fairly good response from it. So
> if any one would like to see that file, I can give you that. Installation
> instructions are in the commands.html file. Also to get it working with
> gentoo, it required some things not documented, it requires
> libportaudio.so.0 but portaudio only has libportaudio.so, just create a
> link. I was unable to compile it, but the linux binary works with that
> link.
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
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