>> Just wondering if there is any speech synthesis programs available
>> for RH8 (or Unix in general)?
Jeff> Sun labs has a nice JAVA text to speech engine and application
Jeff> being developed on SourceForge.
Also take a look at festival; it's on the second RH 8.0 CD.
Output from "rpm -qi festival":
Name : festival Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 1.4.2 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 12 Build Date: Wed 14 Aug 2002 05:17:17 PM MDT
Install date: Tue 01 Oct 2002 Build Host: daffy.perf.redhat.com
Group : Applications/Multimedia Source RPM: festival-1.4.2-12.src.rpm
Size : 67919588 License: BSD
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 03 Sep 2002 04:35:47 PM MDT, Key ID 219180cddb42a60e
Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL : http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
Summary : A speech synthesis system.
Description :
Festival is a general purpose, multi-lingual speech synthesis system
developed at CSTR. It offers a full text to speech system with various
APIs, as well as an environment for development and research of speech
synthesis techniques.
It is written in C++ with a Scheme-based command interpreter for
general control.
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Ron Olsen
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