Espeak for mac, as of now and probably forever unless one of the tallented programmers learns how cepstral and infovox work on the mac, and integrate this free and open source software to the mac. If eSpeak cannot be ported, and integrated, then that's one point lower that I have for open source software.
> On Aug 23, 2014, at 17:28, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote: > > Hi! > I have it installed here but i don't understand how it should be integrated > in to voiceover so that it could work as a good voiceover voice. > I guess one has to be a programmer to do the trick. > /A >> 23 aug 2014 kl. 06:37 skrev 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>: >> >> I tried downloading the OSX version of eSpeak but wasn't able to get very >> far with it. Of course I've never used the tool before. I downloaded it from >> here: >> >> http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html >> >> but when I typed >> >> ./speak "The quick brown fox" >> >> it gave the error: >> >> Can't read data file: '/usr/share/espeak-data/phontab' >> >> I didn't have time to fiddle much more and figure out what files were >> supposed to live in that path. >> >> CB >> >>> On 8/2/14, 1:10 PM, Alex Hall wrote: >>> The developers have never been very open to the idea, but I think that's >>> mostly because the Mac API for making a voice is complex. I've given it a >>> try, a couple times, and didn't get far because I don't know enough about >>> the mechanics of speech synthesis. >>>> On Aug 2, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi! >>>> I've been wondering that since i got my mac and never got any answer on >>>> that. >>>> Very disappointing. >>>> /A >>>> 2 aug 2014 kl. 18:53 skrev Devin Prater <d.pra...@me.com>: >>>> >>>>> Hi all. As a long-time user of both Windows and the mac, I keep wondering >>>>> why eSpeak hasn't been ported to work with voiceover and the mac speech >>>>> API. If Eloquence can be ported, why on earth can't eSpeak, being open >>>>> source and a native linux program, be ported? Is Eloquence just that >>>>> good, and mac users so into windows that Eloquence, a native windows app, >>>>> just has to b ported, in a rather weird form with only one voice and a >>>>> few weird bugs, rather than eSpeak, with its many languages, amazing >>>>> pronounciation and configurability? And I don't want just a "type text >>>>> and push that there play button and hear it talk" little toy app. I want >>>>> it to be selectable in the VO speech pane of the utility, as a system >>>>> voice, and usable in the say fuction of the terminal. Is that really, >>>>> really too much to ask for of an open source program? 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