Re: seeking comparison of Cepstral+eflite and Phonix

[Pierre Lorenzon <lorenzon@xxxxxxxxxxx-psud.fr>]

Hi,

I'am developing a mutli-lingual solution with Festival/Mbrola.

This system works well with Alsa sound devices, and is capable
to speak english and french for the moment. New languages can be
added. I do not know in which language you are interested.

See : http://www.pollock-nageoire.net/festival/
Beware, this system is not complete and some features must still
be implemented but I would be very happy if there were
comments or report on this work.

Regards

Pierre


From: RAYNER Peter <peter.rayner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: seeking comparison of Cepstral+eflite and Phonix
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 19:29:16 +0200

peter.rayner> Just about says it really.  
peter.rayner> It's time to move away from Viavoice, much as I've liked it for the
peter.rayner> past few years.  
peter.rayner> Two obvious alternatives seem to be the cepstral voices combined with
peter.rayner> eflite or the phonix Dec-talk implementation.  
peter.rayner> Has anyone used both of these? 
peter.rayner> some criteria I would value highly are
peter.rayner> responsiveness (essential)
peter.rayner> Compatibility with new systems, especially ALSA (essential) 
peter.rayner> quality (highly desirable) 
peter.rayner> multi-lingual  capability (desirable) 
peter.rayner> Source code (desirable)  
peter.rayner> 
peter.rayner> Obviously not all these are applicable to both, e.g. one would
peter.rayner> presumably be adding other voices to eflite to get multi-lingual
peter.rayner> support and I understand the source issue with the phonix server.  
peter.rayner> 
peter.rayner> Any other alternatives I should consider?  
peter.rayner> cheers
peter.rayner> Peter Rayner
peter.rayner> 
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