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[Juan Hernandez]

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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[Sergey Fleytin]

Hi!

>>>>> "JH" == Juan Hernandez <juan@labradorable.net> writes:

JH> Hello, I would like to know what speech engine is the best? I have
JH> festival and running on my computer what others are nice? festival
JH> sounds like a chipmunk. I wanna use it with gnopernicus. THanks in
JH> advanced. also, I am running fedora core 1.0 tnx


I had similar problem with Festival under redhat 9. In my case the
reason for such behaviour was that i was using internal (onboard)
sound card. After installing external sound card (Creative awe128 pci)
that problem went away.

With best regards,

Sergey.

Re: speech ingens

[Alex Snow]

viavoice was a pretty good engine from what I hear but ibm 
discontinued the linux version. dectalk is also good but unfortunately 
it's not free.
Freetts also works but I've heard it's really laggy even on fast 
machines.
On 
Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:45:34PM -0800, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> 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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Re: speech ingens

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209]

The ALSA sound drivers should fix you up.  RPMs can be found at 
ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup/disks/fedora/1/RPMS/
Use the kernel-module-alsa package to match your architecture, i686, for 
your new box.  Configuration can be tricky.  I think there's some stuff on 
the ALSA project site, http://www.alsa-project.org/
If you have any trouble, call.
          HTH.
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Bill in Denver

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Juan Hernandez wrote:

> 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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Re: speech ingens

[Tom and Esther Ward]

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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Re: speech ingens

[Steve Holmes]

Is it possible to use flite instead of festival? I would like to dabble
with emacspeak a bit and I understand one cannot use festival with
it.  But since I can't get flite to compile here, that might be a moot
point anyhow.  Do I have to beware of any special tricks or hints to
install festival?

I'm running Slackware 9.1 here and do not mind compiling and
installing from sources.  That would probably be much easier than
trying to force in a debian package or some such.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:18:30PM -0500, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> 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?
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Re: speech ingens

[Alex Snow]

there are good instructions on installing festival at 
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/testing/gnopernicus.html.
On 
Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 05:12:12AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Is it possible to use flite instead of festival? I would like to dabble
> with emacspeak a bit and I understand one cannot use festival with
> it.  But since I can't get flite to compile here, that might be a moot
> point anyhow.  Do I have to beware of any special tricks or hints to
> install festival?
> 
> I'm running Slackware 9.1 here and do not mind compiling and
> installing from sources.  That would probably be much easier than
> trying to force in a debian package or some such.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:18:30PM -0500, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> > 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?
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> The best solutions for the best price!
> http://ld.net/?holmesgrown
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Re: speech ingens

[Janina Sajka]

Tom and Esther Ward writes:
> From: "Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978@earthlink.net>
> 
> 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.


I had the same exact problem with the OSS drivers, which are still the
default on Fedora. I have had no problems with ALSA which is the new
default in the 2.6 kernels and will be the default in the next Fedora
release.