From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cantata.rednote.net ([66.92.170.86]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A067c-0001Fn-00 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:15:28 -0400 Received: from cantata.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by cantata.rednote.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.4) with ESMTP id h8ILFPfB009989 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:15:25 -0400 Received: (from janina@localhost) by cantata.rednote.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.4) id h8ILFO1X009987 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:15:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:15:24 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: 16k voices Message-ID: <20030918211524.GS9372@rednote.net> References: <20030918150603.GU9372@rednote.net> <20030918205921.HKCN10601.mta9.adelphia.net@beavis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030918205921.HKCN10601.mta9.adelphia.net@beavis> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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: I think the quality is pretty wonjderful. The latest release supposedly contains all the headers you need to run it with our interfaces, but I haven't looked into that much beyond downloading the tarball. Jacob Schmude writes: > From: "Jacob Schmude" > > 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. > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175