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From: Chris Brannon <cmbrannon@cox.net>
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Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> I personally find
> eSpeak much easier to listen to for much longer periods of time than DECtalk,
> Voxin/Eloquence/ViaVoice/IBMTTS/TTSynth/whatever it's called from one minute to
> the next or any hardware synthesizer I ever heard, not to mention the fact
> that it is free as in speech and beer.

Hi Lorenzo,
Yes, espeak is definitely my synthesizer of choice these days.  I note
the signature at the bottom of your message.  Have you had much luck with
the Esperanto voice?

-- Chris