Re: [misterhouse-users] Help! Problems installing ViaVoice for VR

[Sean W. <li...@su...>]

Sean Walker wrote:

> Chris Barrett wrote:
>
>> Has anyone installed ViaVoice on Fedora Core 2?  I've been trying to 
>> follow
>> the instructions as a part of the MH installation instructions and 
>> have not
>> had any luck.
>>  
>>
> I'm going to say that you will have nothing but problems. The binaries 
> for VV are very old and linked against very old libraries. I started 
> having trouble with it ages ago and dumped it.
>
> I would recommend Festival or Cepstral for TTS, Cepstral being 
> commercial and sounds really nice. They don't have the Linux version 
> for sale right now (coming soon it says still) but the Festival one is 
> free and sounds reasonably good.
>
Those Cepstral voices for Linux are to be available in mid to late 
August, I just asked them. :)

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