LM wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Dirk Schouten <d.schouten@xxxxxxxx> wrote:We are looking for better voices than espeak. Sounds horrible IMHO.I had read that espeak did a pretty good job when you consider how much less code there is to it compared to an application like festival. Would be curious what you thought of flite (festival lite). Here are some other links I turned up that might be useful: This one's asking for volunteers, so possibly something we might want to add to the wiki list ofprojects in need of volunteers: http://linux-speakup.org/projects.html http://linux-speakup.org/joinspeakup.htmlFound source code for blinux which appears to be what ADRIANE is using for text mode screen reading: http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/blinux/src/I checked wikipedia's list of screen readers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screen_readersThere were a couple of projects that it listed thatwere Open Source: http://code.google.com/p/webanywhere/ http://the-brannons.com/edbrowse/Would be nice to dig up a few references on how distributions enabled better support for this type of thing. If there was a how-to, maybe more distributions or interested users could add support. Sincerely, Laura ### To unsubscribe from the schoolforge-discuss mailing list: Send an e-mail message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with no subject and a body of "unsubscribe schoolforge-discuss"
Hi Laura,Thanks for the information and the links. That saves me a lot of time. I wish more people on this list would add links to their kind suggestions.
> I had read that espeak did a pretty good job when > you consider how much less code there is to it > compared to an application like festival. Would be > curious what you thought of flite (festival lite).'pretty good job' depends on many qualities. We do not care that much about quantity of code vs. 'good job'. It's the end result for the listener that's our main concern. If it sounds bad, the listener does not blame the TTS voice (what's TTS?) but the application itself.
> Would be nice to dig up a few references on how > distributions enabled better support for this type > of thing. If there was a how-to, maybe more > distributions or interested users could add > support. Try this one for daisy-player http://wyxs.net/web/ubuntu_daisy_player/As soon as the voices in eBook-speaker are ready, I start the manual on that one.
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