Re: espeakf?

["T. V. Raman" <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If festival sounds better than eflite it's because it has better
pre-built voices.
Rather than writing a festival server, compile eflite with better
voices, 
by default it comes  with 8k voices which are never going to sound
good.
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Ward <slingshooter@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Thomas> Thanks for the responce. I still think festival sounds
    Thomas> better than eflite, and festival works fine if the
    Thomas> driver/server is written in C++.  I've had some experience
    Thomas> using festival as a synth with gnopernicus and it isn't
    Thomas> bad, but is still a little slow. However, it has better
    Thomas> speech quality than eflite.  Looks like I'll try writing
    Thomas> my own server at some point, but until I find the time to
    Thomas> crank one out I'll stick with eflite.


    Thomas> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Mario Lang wrote:

    >> Thomas Ward <slingshooter@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
    >> 
    >> > Hello, list.  > I finally got around to wanting to try
    >> espeakf, the festival server for > emacspeak, but I can't seam
    >> to check it out of cvs. Everytime I try > sourceforge comes
    >> back and tells me I am not authorized to checkout the > files.
    >> I, as original author of that piece of code, officially
    >> depreached it some months ago.  I asked sourceforge to remove
    >> the project, which they didn't really do yet.  Maybe they just
    >> broke the CVS?
    >> 
    >> > So I have the following questions.
    >> >
    >> > 1. Is espeakf vary good?  no
    >> 
    >> > 2. If it is worth the time to checkout how do I check it out
    >> of cvs, or > can someone just send me files?  no, its not worth
    >> the hassle.  Use eflite.
    >> 
    >> > 3. If aquestions 1 and 2 are negative do you think it would
    >> be better fro > me to write my own emacspeak server for
    >> festival?  If you want to do it, sure :) I gave up, because
    >> various problems came up: 1. Festival is slow, very slow.
    >> 2. At the time I wrote espeakf, it was not really easy to get
    >> it to change voices inline.  I looked at SABLE, but all that
    >> stuff was far too unstable to be useful.  I finally just gave
    >> up.
    >> 
    >> I believe the best way to implement a nicely functional
    >> festival server would be to use the scheme level of festival.
    >> i.e., feed it with scheme commands to synth text, and change
    >> voices.  But I was far too unexperienced with scheme back then,
    >> and, unfortunately SIOD (the festival scheme interpreter) does
    >> not support read/write from streams.  So you cant write it all
    >> in scheme, you have to write a emacspeak server in some
    >> language, which then calls festival...
    >> 
    >> Another approach would have been using the festival C++ API,
    >> but AFAIR, it did not allow anything more than just
    >> speak_text...
    >> 
    >> If you manage to do it, maybe its useful after all, since
    >> todays machines are a lot faster than 3 years ago.  But I'm
    >> still not sure if it is worth the effort.
    >> 
    >> 

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