Re: speech synthesis

From: Thomas Bock <
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Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 17:03:55 -0700

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for TTS ..there's FreeTTS (http://freetts.sourceforge.net)... as far as 
I remember they were working also on a FreeSR
-Thomas

Thomas Edwards wrote:

>On Mon, 8 Jul 2002  wrote:
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>>What do you mean by "better", Thomas? Better sound? Better voices?
>>(You can create your own voices with Festvox.)
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>>-Mel
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>I find that Festival doesn't sound very good for text-to-speech in terms
>of intonation and understandability compared with non-free speech
>synthesis programs I have tried.  This is not suprising, but I was
>wondering if there were any other free systems around.
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>-Thomas
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for TTS ..there's FreeTTS (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://freetts.sourceforge.net">http://freetts.sourceforge.net</a>)... as far as I
remember they were working also on a FreeSR<br>
-Thomas<br>
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    <pre wrap="">What do you mean by "better", Thomas? Better sound? Better voices?
(You can create your own voices with Festvox.)

-Mel
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I find that Festival doesn't sound very good for text-to-speech in terms
of intonation and understandability compared with non-free speech
synthesis programs I have tried.  This is not suprising, but I was
wondering if there were any other free systems around.

-Thomas

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Fax: 650.845.2555
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