> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew Miller > Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 5:03 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: changing voice with festival > > > On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 01:53:30PM -0700, Globe Trotter wrote: > > Would it please be possible to include a British male and > female accent > > also? Their diction is usually great and understandable > across the world! > > (Brits call themselves as lacking in accent:-) > > Unfortunately, the British voices use festlex_OALD, from the Oxford > Advanced Learners' Dictionary, and that's restricted to > non-commercial use. > So it can't be included. (This is why the CMU Scottish voice > is US English, > too, I suppose.) > > Like I said, I'm not a speech synthesis expert... if anyone knows any > Fedora-licensing-compatible options, let me know. > > > > Btw, I have no .festivalrc file. I guess I should creat > this, looking at > > the manual? > > Yep. > > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx > <http://www.mattdm.org/> > Boston University Linux ------> > <http://linux.bu.edu/> > Current office temperature: 77 degrees Fahrenheit. Just because Fedora can't include this stuff as a package, shouldn't turn people off. Someone with a home machine, and no commercial ambitions, can download, compile and install everything. A great learning experience. Just a passing thought!
