From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta9.adelphia.net ([68.168.78.199]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A05sW-0000wz-00 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:59:52 -0400 Received: from beavis ([67.21.114.148]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030918205921.HKCN10601.mta9.adelphia.net@beavis> for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:59:21 -0400 From: "Jacob Schmude" To: "speakup@braille.uwo.ca" Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:57:33 -0400 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2717) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;4) In-Reply-To: <20030918150603.GU9372@rednote.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.HTML_7092504=_=_=_" Subject: Re: 16k voices X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 9/18/2003), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Message-Id: <20030918205921.HKCN10601.mta9.adelphia.net@beavis> Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: --_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.HTML_7092504=_=_=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi I've been thinking of trying cepstral out, what's the quality of it? Their little tts demo on the site really doesn't give me much of a feel for the voices. Since its the commercial side of festival, can it emulate the festival server and thus be used by anything supporting festival? On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:06:03 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: >Right on, Jacob. > >But, there is another software synth that's worth the money, and it's >less money than software DEC Talk. Go check out the Linux voices >available at http://www.cepstral.com. Cepstral are the commercial side >of Festival and Flite, by the way. > --_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.HTML_7092504=_=_=_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi
I've been thinking of trying cepstral out, what's the quality of it? Their little tts demo on the site really doesn't give me much of a feel for the voices. Since its the commercial side of festival, can it emulate the festival server and thus be used by anything supporting festival?


On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:06:03 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:

>Right on, Jacob.
>
>But, there is another software synth that's worth the money, and it's
>less money than software DEC Talk. Go check out the Linux voices
>available at http://www.cepstral.com. Cepstral are the commercial side
>of Festival and Flite, by the way.
>
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