From: "Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978@earthlink.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: speech ingens
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:18:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <020901c3cf55$262b2f40$cac8b041@noneflzmskjmuf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <029a01c3cea0$873f55f0$1400a8c0@atlantis>
As far as a free software synth festival is the best there is right now. If
you want a synth that sounds better there is the Dectalk software from Fonix
which costs about $50, but one problem is that is very slow while editing
text documents in gedit where festival is very prompt for me. As for
festival sounding like a chipmunk I can tell you that is not normal
behavior. There can be one of two problems here.
1. Configuring the speech rate, pitch etc.. If you haven't already done so
switch to layer 8 and configure your speech to how you want it to sound.
2. Some sound cards under Fedora don't get properly configured causing sound
cards to make speech sound very strange. I tried Fedora a while back and my
dectalk software sounded like a chipmunk no matter what I did to set the
pitch and rate, but when I removed Fedora and put Mandrake 9.2 on the
problem totally vanished. So there seams to be something up with Fedora and
soundcards.
In fact, every software speech system I tried had the same problems under
Fedora, and the all work fine on the same computer with Mandrake. Any
conclusions?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Juan Hernandez" <juan@labradorable.net>
To: "speakup" <Speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 1:45 AM
Subject: speech ingens
Hello, I would like to know what speech engine is the best? I have festival
and running on my computer what others are nice? festival sounds like a
chipmunk. I wanna use it with gnopernicus. THanks in advanced. also, I am
running fedora core 1.0 tnx
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