> > I have, yes, to the extent of downloading, compiling, and generally having > a play with Festival. I wasn't that impressed with the output to be quite > honest, and recorded and edited the ATIS voice shortly afterwards. I've > started writing the instructions for creating a new voice, and I'm hopeful > that that will catalyse the obvious interest shown in creating voices. > The version of Festival I tried sounded very mechanical, it could get very old, very annoying, very fast. There are commercial products at a reasonable price ( < $100US) that are quite good.
> Of course, that doesn't preclude anyone else adding synthetic voice support > - it could be easily dropped into FGATCDisplay, it's just not something I > want to put (very limited) time into at the moment. > Unfortunately, the commercial stuff does not drop into FG at all and developing a network interface might be just as difficult. > In the long term, voice recognition for natural ATC communication, possibly > via a second PC, would be really cool... > Definitely! Moving it from a concept to actuality is a lot of work. But we all have loads of free time... ;-)) Regards John W. > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
