From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.64]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FSnyz-0007Tv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:26:33 -0400 Received: from [71.215.4.153] (helo=home) by smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FSnyz-0000F5-2B for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:26:33 -0400 Message-ID: <00e401c65c56$f2758a10$4100a8c0@home> From: "hank smith" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: Subject: Re: A small software synthesiser, espeak Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 21:26:31 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-ELNK-Trace: 26c683a02984a6448aa916b1a551c5b9239a348a220c2609eb1cbd11f00b979b9b7d5bbc806da806350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 71.215.4.153 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:26:33 -0000 can I hear a sample of this synth? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Whapples" To: 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 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ NOD32 1.1479 (20060409) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >