Re: How to get Festival text to speech working?

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Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 09:57 +0200, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
>> personally i found that http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ is already much
>> more versatile. 
> 
> Hmm, neither this, nor Festival, sound as good as the speak device on
> the Amiga (from the mid 1980s).  That's a bit surprising, I'd have
> thought that it'd be vastly outperformed, by now.
> 
You need to be careful when evaluating how well speech sounds like. It turns out
the voice synthesizer is highly dependent on voice. For example the default
festival voice is not bad, but adding a few of the artic voices in, the speech
is not as good.

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Joseph Loo
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