changing voice with festival

[Globe Trotter]

--- Tom Broadhurst <tombro at usa.net> wrote:

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Miller
> > Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 5:03 PM
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > Subject: Re: changing voice with festival
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 01:53:30PM -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
> > > Would it please be possible to include a British male and 
> > female accent
> > > also? Their diction is usually great and understandable 
> > across the world!
> > > (Brits call themselves as lacking in accent:-)
> > 
> > Unfortunately, the British voices use festlex_OALD, from the  Oxford
> > Advanced Learners' Dictionary, and that's restricted to 
> > non-commercial use.
> > So it can't be included. (This is why the CMU Scottish voice 
> > is US English,
> > too, I suppose.)
> > 
> > Like I said, I'm not a speech synthesis expert... if anyone knows any
> > Fedora-licensing-compatible options, let me know.
> > 
> > 
> > > Btw, I have no .festivalrc file. I guess I should creat 
> > this, looking at
> > > the manual?
> > 
> > Yep.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org        
> > <http://www.mattdm.org/>
> > Boston University Linux      ------>                
> > <http://linux.bu.edu/>
> > Current office temperature: 77 degrees Fahrenheit.
> 
> Just because Fedora can't include this stuff as a package, shouldn't turn
> people off.
> Someone with a home machine, and no commercial ambitions, can download,
> compile and install everything.
> A great learning experience. 
> Just a passing thought!
> 

Yep! And I am doing that right now...as I read this e-mail. Btw, and this is
alsodirected to Matthew, what is the multisyn package? Is that a good thing to
have?

By the way, Matthew, here is a thought: you may consider including multisyn in
FC Extras or so, in not in the Core. After all, Open Office RPMs are like 200
MB or so, isn't that right?

Many thanks, and best wishes!





		
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