Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Accessibility

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Thursday 30 August 2001  3:36pm, Samuel Hart wrote:
> 3) Festival is either very slow, or very hard to use. If you use it the
> simple way (in the client/server model) Festival will be very slow to
> respond to any request. If you use it in the API model, you can speed
> things up a bit (especially if you pre-render all speech),

Oh, one other thing I failed to mention here....

... If you pre-render all speech, it can take up lots of RAM. (It seems to 
essentially store it as uncompressed audio in memory, and calls it back up 
when you request a particular utterance).

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