Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
ilent and it wouldn't surprise me if the system also got hung. On Sun, 6 Nov 2016, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 19:23:18 From: MENGUAL Jean-Philippe Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Re: A new tts on Linux

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Nov 2016, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 19:23:18 From: MENGUAL Jean-Philippe Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Re: A new tts on Linux Hi, Le 03/11/2016 ? 23:39, Jude DaShiell a ?crit : The next question is are

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-05 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
; Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion >> To: Linux for blind general discussion >> Subject: Re: A new tts on Linux >> >> Interesting feedback. I don't know what's for English, but for French >> mbrola has some "belgium" accent, someti

Re: Re : Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-05 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Right. I forward to university, it's its product. They'll see with their lawyers. I really think they trademark it given commercial usage of it in various products. I don't know details of such trademarks. Le 04/11/2016 à 15:46, Jackie McBride a écrit : > Well, u may have had the name first, but

Re: Fwd: Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-05 Thread Kyle
I'm not at all sure how in the world things like NVDA and Narrator crept into this conversation, since we're talking about Emacs, which is a horse of a different color no matter where it runs. In any case, something that hasn't been updated in years that is open source could always be picked up

Re: Fwd: Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Devin Prater, on Fri 04 Nov 2016 14:59:32 -0500, wrote: > as far as I know, Speechd-el hasn't been updated in years. I've used > Speechd-el, and it reminds me more of Narrator as compared to NVDA, being > Emacspeak. I guess emacspeak could be made to use speechd-el as an output speech synthesis, t

Re: Fwd: Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-04 Thread Fernando Botelho
m to trigger on certain events, all that. On 11/4/2016 7:35 AM, Fernando Botelho wrote: Thanks very much for this suggestion Raphaë. Best regards, Fernando On 11/04/2016 07:38 AM, Raphaël POITEVIN wrote: Dear Fernando, Message transféré ---- Sujet : Re: A new tts on Linux Date :

Re: Fwd: Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-04 Thread Devin Prater
icons, setting them to trigger on certain events, all that. On 11/4/2016 7:35 AM, Fernando Botelho wrote: Thanks very much for this suggestion Raphaë. Best regards, Fernando On 11/04/2016 07:38 AM, Raphaël POITEVIN wrote: Dear Fernando, Message transféré ---- Sujet : Re: A n

Re: Re : Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-04 Thread Jackie McBride
Well, u may have had the name first, but that would be irrelevant if u didn't trademark it (or its non-US equivalent) & Kali did. U may really want to check, as there does exist the possibility that the name is infringing on an existing trademark, which could spell *big* legal trouble. I'm no lawye

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-04 Thread Raphaël POITEVIN
On 11/04/2016 01:37 PM, Fernando Botelho wrote: You are right Samuel, I had forgotten all about SpeechD-el, and it might have the features we are looking for. I don't know everything about speechd-el, but don't hesitate if I can help. raphaël ___ B

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-04 Thread Fernando Botelho
You are right Samuel, I had forgotten all about SpeechD-el, and it might have the features we are looking for. Thanks, Fernando ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

Re: Fwd: Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-04 Thread Fernando Botelho
Thanks very much for this suggestion Raphaë. Best regards, Fernando On 11/04/2016 07:38 AM, Raphaël POITEVIN wrote: Dear Fernando, Message transféré Sujet : Re: A new tts on Linux Date : Thu, 3 Nov 2016 14:38:04 -0200 De : Fernando Botelho Répondre à : fernando.bote

Re : Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-04 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Thanks Kyle for honest feedback, although I'm not surprised. I don't know when was born Kali, the security distro. Kali tts was born in 1996. And is the result of years of research by Caen University. So I think we cannot change the name of such product. I noticed several time the point, bu

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
discussion To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Re: A new tts on Linux Any reason u call it kali, since that's the name of a distro dedicated to security? IMO, it creates a great deal of confusion. On 11/3/16, Kyle wrote: To be brutally honest, I think some of the Flite/Mimic voices

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-03 Thread Jackie McBride
Any reason u call it kali, since that's the name of a distro dedicated to security? IMO, it creates a great deal of confusion. On 11/3/16, Kyle wrote: > To be brutally honest, I think some of the Flite/Mimic voices sound much > much better in English. Even Espeak, though not a "natural" voice, >

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-03 Thread Kyle
To be brutally honest, I think some of the Flite/Mimic voices sound much much better in English. Even Espeak, though not a "natural" voice, definitely sounds less, um, like it's got something firmly entrenched in its cheak or something, and it even has somewhat better inflection with the right

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Fernando Botelho, on Thu 03 Nov 2016 14:38:04 -0200, wrote: > Would your team have the skills to develop a speech server for Emacspeak to > use Speech-Dispatcher and eSpeak? Is speechd-el not supposed to provide such kind of support? Samuel ___

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
-Philippe Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Re: A new tts on Linux Interesting feedback. I don't know what's for English, but for French mbrola has some "belgium" accent, sometimes hard to understand. And few prosody. So Ka

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-03 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Interesting feedback. I don't know what's for English, but for French mbrola has some "belgium" accent, sometimes hard to understand. And few prosody. So Kali is an improvement as more understandable. But maybe it's less true in English. Le 03/11/2016 à 22:33, Devin Prater a écrit : > It sounds a

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-03 Thread Devin Prater
It sounds a lot like MBROLA. Good, but it's been done before. On 11/3/2016 3:13 PM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: Hi, Here are English samples: Rosalind : https://owncloud.hypra.fr/index.php/s/y3F1fkxSzl6bxm9/download Tom : https://owncloud.hypra.fr/index.php/s/lVG0hmXQyJOvGlh9/download They

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-03 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Here are English samples: Rosalind : https://owncloud.hypra.fr/index.php/s/y3F1fkxSzl6bxm9/download Tom : https://owncloud.hypra.fr/index.php/s/lVG0hmXQyJOvGlh9/download They have no settings here, it's "raw". Orca can suit voices according to typical parameters in Preferences, and Kalinux.i

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-03 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! What languages are included? How can we help to bring other languages to that tts? /A > On 3 Nov 2016, at 11:32, Alex ARNAUD wrote: > > Dear M. Peveto, > > The voices Tom and Rosalind are English voices. > > Best regards. > -- > Alex ARNAUD > Visual-Impairment Project Manager > Hypra - "Hu

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-03 Thread Fernando Botelho
Hello Jean-Philippe, Would your team have the skills to develop a speech server for Emacspeak to use Speech-Dispatcher and eSpeak? Alternatively, would your team be able to create a BASH script that automates the installation and configuration of Emacspeak and eSpeak inside an Arch Linux mac

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-03 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi are there also German voices available? Ciao and thanks, Schoepp On Do, Nov 03, 2016 at 11:32:00 +0100, Alex ARNAUD wrote: >Dear M. Peveto, > >The voices Tom and Rosalind are English voices. > >Best regards. >-- >Alex ARNAUD >Visual-Impairment Project Manager >Hypra - "Humanizing technol

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-03 Thread mattias jonsson
ok? where to find demos? Den 2016-11-03 kl. 11:32, skrev Alex ARNAUD: Dear M. Peveto, The voices Tom and Rosalind are English voices. Best regards. ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-03 Thread Alex ARNAUD
Dear M. Peveto, The voices Tom and Rosalind are English voices. Best regards. -- Alex ARNAUD Visual-Impairment Project Manager Hypra - "Humanizing technology" Le 03/11/2016 à 02:49, Mark Peveto a écrit : Does this have english voices? Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Everythin

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-02 Thread 高生旺
Will you provide Chinese voice in future? On Thu, 3 Nov 2016, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 07:29:27 From: MENGUAL Jean-Philippe Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: A new tts on Linux Hi, We are proud announcing

Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-02 Thread Mark Peveto
Does this have english voices? Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Everything happens after coffee! On Thu, 3 Nov 2016, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: Hi, We are proud announcing release of Kali for GNU/Linux. It includes: - three French speaking voices: Patrick, Michel and Guillem

A new tts on Linux

2016-11-02 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, We are proud announcing release of Kali for GNU/Linux. It includes: - three French speaking voices: Patrick, Michel and Guillemette; - two French speaking voices: Tom and Rosalind. Kali is slight, understandable and fast, nearly natura-speaking. You can set usual parameters, and also prosody.