Re: IBMTTS on slackware

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt@csir.co.za>]

Hi,
I use espeak all the time although I still have an old version of viavoice 
going on this machine.
People can also try out the mbrola voice with Espeak. It is more natural 
sounding and free.
Check the espeak documentation for details.
Regards, Willem


On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, William Hubbs wrote:

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> Hi Michael,
> 
> In my opinion, this is a big waste of money since there is no support
> for it with current libraries.  
> 
> As much as I like eloquence, that is all I use on windows these days, I,
> for one, do not intend to purchase or install this on my linux system
> because of the total lack of support or interest in updating it.
> 
> William
> 
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 08:33:48PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I know this has come up before, but I can't remember any actual final
> > conclusion.
> > 
> > Whilst I thought espeak was fast enough, I found I had to use a windows
> > machine last week, and it reminded me how I do actually use eloquence in
> > windows faster than I have espeak. This has got me thinking whether I
> > should get IBMTTS for linux, but I have a few questions.
> > 
> > I know that IBMTTS requires an old compatibility library, which I am
> > unsure is provided in slackware. So how could I go about trying to get
> > this library? Does anyone know of a suitable slackware package for it?
> > If not how might I go about providing this myself from source (I had a
> > look around for the source code I might need, but all libstdc++ seems to
> > have numbers such as 6.0.x etc much highrt than what the TTSynth site
> > suggests, 2.9.6 or 2.9.5). Could it be possible to use a package from a
> > different distribution, eg. I remember back in the days when I used
> > trplayer, I could use rpm2tgz to convert the realplayer 8 package into a
> > slackware package and it worked fine, but I suspect that for libstdc++
> > compatibility libraries things may not be so simple.
> > 
> > This brings me on to another question, whether to use voxin or ttsynth?
> > The ttsynth website says there won't be any support provided, so I guess
> > this means if I buy ttsynth and can't get it working then I am on my own
> > and may have wasted money on it. Might things be better with voxin,
> > their website says that voxin includes the libstdc++ compatibility
> > library (I guess for debian or ubuntu as those are the distros
> > mentioned). 
> > 
> > Alternatively I am wondering whether it would be best save the money and
> > stick with espeak as it is good and works, where as ibmtts sounds like I
> > may hit all sorts of compatibility issues and potentially have no
> > support from the seller.
> > 
> > Michael Whapples
> > 
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