[clug-talk] Speech?

[Shawn]

I'm currently using the CMU Arctic female voice.  It's not bad.  Though 
it seems they have gone to recorded snippets of sounds and are blending 
them together to build the words.  So you end up with some dis-connect 
in tones across some words.  I could be wrong as I haven't looked at 
this too deeply yet.

Still, I think the female voice does a better job than the default male 
voice.  But it'll be like picking a Linux distro - try out a few till 
you find one that works for you.

Shawn

Joe S wrote:
> On February 6, 2010 06:47:26 pm Shawn wrote:
>> I came across Festival, via Ktts and Kmouth.  You can pipe text into
>> it via a command line script.  Something like this:
>>
>>   echo "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave." | festival --tts
>>
>> Which means that ANYTHING that can be boiled down to a text steam is
>> fair game.  Doing a "cat somefile" works just as well.
>>
>> With a little digging, I managed to switch the voice to a female
>> voice, though it still is not quite as smooth as it should be.
>>
>> I think my next task then is to write a script that can create the
>> summary statements I want.  Python seems to have some speech
>> capabilities...
>>
>> Shawn
> 
> Are there any good voices for Festival or Flite? I tried those awhile 
> back and they didn't sound very easy to listen to.
> 
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