From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qc0-f170.google.com (mail-qc0-f170.google.com [209.85.216.170]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C304C1A07E for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:17:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: by qcmt36 with SMTP id t36so3694833qcm.29 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:17:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=references:user-agent:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:subject:from:date:to:message-id; bh=hPXBcJiVP8szT4RsP2Qm4akbBi8fnoNYYVEItA42WEI=; b=ukdrZHywOUW5oDiDZZt5+UihElrMAqZQcVL6OvKVoYCA8liLm7+PfA7OwSZK6vQUWc D+vAJspfMFkaYYxJNy8BE3OqxtqOqgo3r7g5cjCCUdqKsnCiJovs58ueZumORvx5N7me LLw1Y4RUF9t0dRHCVZ0qXKPhABsXdFKARxYu2CCtktCutsZfr9UrQ5J+iQA3B3Z2NyBk vAidkrQ/BbeaTF7B+CtNX/+8aY42oJ60ZOFJRU8O85y49NLN4dkGc2/mbToHA98Yic1y tJm+bIgln6Agluu+ZDa/B2fpEd0bl63ofvVXr+wS5Chltoz9y0i0vEJ79Yrtr0kKmxSB oOCw== Received: by 10.229.69.6 with SMTP id x6mr7086849qci.52.1343053031661; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:17:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.7] (cpe-024-211-185-030.nc.res.rr.com. [24.211.185.30]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s9sm10299150qaa.7.2012.07.23.07.17.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:17:10 -0700 (PDT) References: User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: hardware or software synths From: Kyle Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:13:15 -0400 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <605aa805-88a8-42d0-b375-3112b58573ac@email.android.com> X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:17:12 -0000 While I agree regarding the standard FestVox voices that come with Festival, it does offer a framework that allows much more understandable voices to be installed and used instead. Also, I find eSpeak to be of much higher quality, easier to understand, available at a much lower price and much better maintained than IBMTTS, ViaVoice, TTSynth, Voxin or whatever they're calling that old broken down Jaws voice these days, and that's completely putting aside for the moment that both Festival and eSpeak are completely free and open source, meaning that you have the freedom to fix what you don't like about them. Pico is also open source, although from what I understand, there is a bit of a problem making new voice data or something. Festival and eSpeak are open source, including their voice data, which is impossible to find on any hardware synthesizer at any price. ~Kyle -- Kyle is a droid. The whole world knows it This e-mail shows it.