Re: [Flightgear-devel] Text-to-Speech system, was: New release

2010-12-25 Thread Erik Hofman
On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 14:23 -0700, John Denker wrote: To say the same thing another way: I have an investment in the existing snippet-based system, but I would be well pleased to see it replaced by something better. There's plenty of life left in the 'snipped based' or rather queuing system

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Text-to-Speech system, was: New release

2010-12-24 Thread Mirko Stanisak
On Friday 24 December 2010 20:14:17 James Turner wrote: Looks very interesting - have you used it yourself? Would be good to know how complete, actively maintained and so on it is. I've used Flite to generate voices in ATC simulations (so that you can listen to the commands between simulated

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Text-to-Speech system, was: New release

2010-12-24 Thread John Denker
On 12/24/2010 01:53 PM, Mirko Stanisak wrote: I've used Flite to generate voices in ATC simulations (so that you can listen to the commands between simulated pilots and controllers). It worked quite well, the speech was understandable quite well, even if it sounded very artificial. On the