Re: [misterhouse-users] Linux - Festival or ViaVoice Speech Engine

[Dave L. <db...@di...>]

Jeff,=20

My preference is ViaVoice for the following reasons (YMMV):
 - It rarely mis-pronounces words and is easy to understand.=20
 - Generates speech inline/realtime as opposed to waiting until the
whole phrase is generated. This makes a big difference when generating
large passages.
 - Supports special procesing tags to modify voice characteristics on
the fly.
 - Seems to require less CPU resources.

I think all of the festival voices sound more like a computer generated
voice and most of the voices have a slight british accent which I
personally have a hard time understanding. I am sure some prefer it but
I don't.=20

Supposedly there is a lite version of Festival called flite that has
voices that are more realistic (unfortunately those new voices are still
unavailable).=20

Hope that helps,=20

Dave
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On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 21:46, Jeff H wrote:
> I've been running MH on a Windows machine for about 3 years now. I've dec=
ided I'd like to revert the machine back to a Linux box and was wondering i=
f some folks had tried both ViaVoice and Festival and could give some compa=
rison on the two. I've found that I just don't use the VR stuff on the wind=
ows box but of course the TTS is a must. If I needed the VR, it wouldn't be=
 choice but since I only need TTS..... any recommendations on which Linux T=
TS engine to go with?
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> Thanks In Advance,
> Jeff
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> - Please post all replies to the NewsGroup only -=20
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