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From: Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt@csir.co.za>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: RE: speakup using different synths with software speech?
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:37:40 +0200 (SAST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906010935090.862@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <036101c9e24a$63683200$6400a8c0@quan>

There is a way to use mbrola voices with espeak.  It is more 
human-sounding, but getting used to espeak standard voice does not take 
long.
Regards, Willem


On Sun, 31 May 2009, James Homuth wrote:

> Somewhat related, what's the likelyhood of Espeak voices getting
> improvements to be more... I'm not sure what the word for it is, other than
> human-sounding? That's been one of my main sticking points for why I'm still
> with Windows on my primary machine; that, plus I've not until now had time
> to test the accessibility of my particular preferred distribution. I did
> hear a demonstration a while back of a version of Espeak, and while I could
> definitely get used to it, I think I'd like it a whole lot better if it
> didn't sound quite as robotic. I'm not saying it should equal eloquence by
> any means, but the demo I heard kind of reminded me of the old Echo synths
> used on the early Apple computers. Good, but could be better, IMHO. Anyway,
> this was more a rambling/curiosity thing and by no means an attempt at
> criticism as I've not actually gotten it running locally yet, so for all I
> know my version of Espeak could already be improved over the demo I heard.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Hermann
> Sent: May 31, 2009 3:59 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: speakup using different synths with software speech?
> 
> am So 31. Mai 2009 um 21:31:02 schrieb William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> > 
> > Tyler,
> > 
> > I recommend getting used to espeak.  The version of eloquence on linux 
> > is old, buggy, and they are not planning to upgrade it.
> > 
> He can look here:
> http://voxin.oralux.net/index.php#main
> I've bought a rather new version there a few months ago.
> Works pretty well, but to use it with Speakup Speech-Dispatcher is required.
> Note: Maybe the Emacspeak-server works as well; I remember having seen
> something in the install script.
> Hermann
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Tyler Littlefield
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` William Hubbs
     ` Hermann
       ` James Homuth
         ` Willem van der Walt [this message]
           ` James Homuth
             ` Willem van der Walt
             ` Kerry Hoath
               ` Tyler Littlefield
         ` Tony Baechler
           ` James Homuth
             ` al Sten-Clanton
           ` Georgina Joyce
             ` Tony Baechler
               ` Georgina Joyce
                 ` Tony Baechler
                   ` Tyler Littlefield
                     ` Alex Snow
               ` Michael Whapples
                 ` Tony Baechler
                   ` Tyler Littlefield
                   ` Michael Whapples
                     ` Tony Baechler
                       ` Kerry Hoath
                         ` Lorenzo Taylor
                           ` Chris Brannon
                             ` Lorenzo Taylor
                       ` DECTalk question, was " al Sten-Clanton
                         ` Adam Myrow
                       ` farhan Khan
                         ` Mixers Tony Baechler
                       ` speakup using different synths with software speech? Georgina Joyce
                         ` Tony Baechler
                           ` Willem van der Walt
                             ` Tony Baechler
                           ` Georgina Joyce
       ` Christopher Moore

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