Dear Tiffanitsa,
I am also interested in having a Greek speech synthesiser and Braille
on my Mac as you know. I have, however, contacted Loquendo who have
produced a fabulous Greek voice on the Windows platform called Athena
but they told me no voices of theirs would work on Mac. I also e-
mailed Cepstral, and they may be a Greek voice coming for Mac. They
haven't committed themselves to any deadlines though so I'm a bit
suspicious.
Keep the pressure going though, Tiffanitsa as will I. Keep me posted
if you can.
With best wishes
Simon
On 2 Feb 2008, at 19:47, Tiffany D wrote:
Ok, now that the basics are met, let's get to the more complicated
stuff. As all of you know, I'm looking for a Greek synthesizer for
Mac. I know most of you can't help me with this, but since these
synths have English and other langues, maybe you know about them. A
friend of mine, who's very knowledgible in unix but not in Mac, told
me that ESpeak might work on the Mac since Leopard is based on unix.
He said it wouldn't be as straight forward as installing a synth on
Windows but, with some tweeking with Unix, it could probably be done.
Does anyone know how accessible the Unix under Leopard is with
VoiceOver? If it is usable, has anyone tried installing ESpeak? I'm
also thinking of the Festival synthesizer. I know that two windows
synths called Demosthenes and Flight were created for the Greek
language, but don't know how usable they would be with Mac. If Unix
is accessible with VoiceOver, I'm going to contact the creator of
these synthesizers and see if he can help me. Another friend of mine
said he thinks he's heard of Loquendo being used on a Mac but isn't
sure. Is this true? If so, could something like Realspeak be used as
well?
Thanks,
Tiffanitsa
