I always liked festival over espeak. The voices just sound more real to me. I find that shows where the host does all the mixing of the intro/outro music sound the best as far as levels go. I don't really care my ears have been blown out of the water a few times and a few more isn't going to make me deaf.
What are your thoughts ken? --cobra2 On September 1, 2018 11:27:52 PM UTC, lostnbronx <lostnbr...@gmail.com> wrote: >I know it's been brought up in the past, but if we're revisiting the >whole thing, is there a better voice available for espeak these days? >I like the idea of having the host announced, along with a simple >description of the ep, but every time I recommend an episode to >someone outside the HPR community, I have to warn them to ignore the >horrible robot voice at the beginning. It really sounds quite bad >compared to others that are out there, though I don't know what Free >Software options are currently available. If this one is still >state-of-the-art for scriptable FOSS voices, then there's nothing to >complain about, since nothing can be done. But if some better voices >do exist now, maybe we could look at swapping out the one we currently >use? > >-LnB _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
