changing voice with festival

[Tom Broadhurst]

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> [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.
> 
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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!