festival -- text to speech software

2016-05-14 Thread Alan McConnell
Assembled Wisdom! 'festival' is speech-synthesized software that has been around for over 15 years, and I have installed it from my Debian jessie DVDs. It worked splendidly for a while, but I have tried to install new 'voices' and I have run into the following error; I get {FND} Feature To

Re: OT: Text to speech engines

2003-07-13 Thread Joseph Barillari
sts LS> however it is in my opinion quite crude, very expensive, and LS> only runs on windows systems LS> (http://www.gusinc.com/speechsystem.html). The application is LS> quite simple, the only thing I need is a decent text to speech LS> engine that will process

OT: Text to speech engines

2003-07-13 Thread Leo Spalteholz
quite simple, the only thing I need is a decent text to speech engine that will process the text generated by my program. If anyone has experience with a (preferrably cross platform) text to speech engine or some recommendations I would be very grateful. If no useable cross platform engine is avai

Re: text-to-speech

2000-06-08 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 11:59:24PM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I need to know how to download a system which can speech my letters allowed. > > > > thanks for any help > > > > I can't tell you how to download the tts, but I can reco

Re: text-to-speech

2000-06-08 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I need to know how to download a system which can speech my letters allowed. > > > > thanks for any help > > > > I can't tell you how to download the tts, but I can recommend > Festival.

Re: text-to-speech

2000-06-07 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to know how to download a system which can speech my letters allowed. > > thanks for any help > I can't tell you how to download the tts, but I can recommend Festival. For best synthesis you will also need Mbrola. Festival is packaged for

text-to-speech

2000-06-07 Thread EDSONCANTOR
I need to know how to download a system which can speech my letters allowed. thanks for any help Edson

Re: Text to Speech?

1998-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
Marc Lepage wrote: > I have compiled Festival myself, to support 16-bit linux16audio (/dev/dsp). It > only supports one audio device, and it appears that the .deb I had used is > compiled to support 8-bit sunaudio (/dev/audio). That has improved the sound. festival version 1.2.1-8, which is only a

Re: Text to Speech?

1998-06-04 Thread Marc Lepage
Christian Hudon wrote: > > On Tuesday, June 02, Marc Lepage wrote > > What are some good text to speech packages for Linux? Assume only a > > SoundBlaster for hardware (ie, no dedicated TTS hardware). > > If you're using emacs, I saw a few emacsspeak packages fly by

Re: Text to Speech?

1998-06-03 Thread Christian Hudon
On Tuesday, June 02, Marc Lepage wrote > What are some good text to speech packages for Linux? Assume only a > SoundBlaster for hardware (ie, no dedicated TTS hardware). If you're using emacs, I saw a few emacsspeak packages fly by on the debian-devel-changes mailing-list recently. You

Text to Speech?

1998-06-03 Thread Marc Lepage
What are some good text to speech packages for Linux? Assume only a SoundBlaster for hardware (ie, no dedicated TTS hardware). I tried Festival, but it seems to pause a tiny bit every few seconds, and frankly I was hoping for better. I'm looking for a package that is not just adequat

Re: text-to-speech

1998-03-16 Thread Joey Hess
Norbert Veber wrote: > is this one any good? I've tried rsynth before, and it was almost unbarable > :) It's a lot better than rsynth (it has a decent pronunciation dictionary). I find it very understandable. I think I'm in a minorty, though. -- see shy jo -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: text-to-speech

1998-03-16 Thread Norbert Veber
> Sure. Debian has a free text to speech program called "festival" that can > speak with a vaiety of voices. You will need to install debian first to use > it (note that this means installing linux - I assume you know what that > means, since you posted here). is this one

Re: text-to-speech

1998-03-15 Thread Joey Hess
Nicholas wrote: > I would like to get a free text-to-speech progtam for my personal use. > I have a windows 95 computer. I can not work out how to get you program, > could you please tell me. Sure. Debian has a free text to speech program called "festival" that can speak with

text-to-speech

1998-03-15 Thread Nicholas
I would like to get a free text-to-speech progtam for my personal use. I have a windows 95 computer. I can not work out how to get you program, could you please tell me. My name is Nicholas Duff, and my e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PRO