Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware

[Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt yahoo com>]

Hi.  You might want to check out the archives for this list.  I saw a
message a few weeks ago from someone who had a speech server for
emacspeak with Festival.

          Kenny

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:14:40AM -0600, Jack Heim wrote:
> I'm unclear on which of the two packages you're talking about. Have you 
> seen Festival or Viavoice work?
> 
> I spent a couple of hours last night searching google & google groups for 
> info on getting Festival working with emacspeak. I didn't really find 
> anything helpful and the few pages I did find tended to indicate there's a 
> piece missing. Apparently some intermediate piece you need between 
> emacspeak & Festival hasn't been developed yet. But most of what I found 
> was so vague I couldn't really tell.
> 
> I certainly did not find anything where someone said straight out that they 
> use a linux machine with emacspeak & Festival.
> 
> My problem is that I need a laptop and I can't figure out how I'm going to 
> get speech working. It seems to me that dragging along an external synth 
> would defeat the purpose.
> 
> 
> 
> At 06:03 PM 3/22/02 +0530, you wrote:
> >I have not got it working on a linux box yet, but i have seen it work. It 
> >is
> >good. I think you have binaries for it for linux.
> >
> >Prasad
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Jack Heim" <jheim facstaff wisc edu>
> >To: <blinux-list redhat com>
> >Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:32 PM
> >Subject: Linux speech w/o special hardware
> >
> >
> >> Has anyone downloaded IBM's Viavoice Outload lately? I downloaded it last
> >> summer but now I can't find it on their web site. I'm wondering if it
> >might
> >> have been withdrawn.
> >>
> >> So then I started poking around on the University of Wisconsin's Trace
> >> Center web site. It mentions something called Festival from the 
> >University
> >> of Edinburgh. I was wondering if anyone had gotten that working on
> >standard
> >> hardware, a PC with a sound card.
> >>
> >>
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