Re: text-to-speech
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 11:59:24PM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote:
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> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 EDSONCANTOR@aol.com wrote:
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> > I need to know how to download a system which can speech my letters allowed.
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> > thanks for any help
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> I can't tell you how to download the tts, but I can recommend
> Festival. For best synthesis you will also need Mbrola. Festival
> is packaged for debian,Mbrola is not, You should be able to find
> explicit instructions on the web for retrieving and installing
> the whole mess. I do recall using Alien to convert some redhat
> packages to complete the installation.
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> > Edson
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I have festival installed (potato). I don't have any "third party"
stuff, only the debs of festival and all the stuff it requires.
It's a bit complicated. If your needs are simple, you might try
recite(?). Last I checked though it had a few nasty bugs that made it
unusable.
--
Pat Mahoney <pat7@gmx.net>
Those of you who think you know everything are annoying those of us who do :)
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