I and other are investigating integration of eSpeak into the speech
manager now. While that work is going on I continue to work on the
Utility as well as being able to use eSpeak voices for digital
talking book production.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Apr 3, 2008, at 1:09 AM, hank smith wrote:
can you intigrate them with speech manager or is apple going to have
to do this?
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Subject: eSpeak for MacOS improvements
A new version of the eSpeak utility for Macintosh is now available
at http://www.cucat.org/projects/espeak/
This version adds the following features:
Open and speak text, html and xml files.
Save audio in wav and aiff formats
Support for mbrola voices (see below)
Experimental support for eSpeak variants in voices
Control of speed and pitch
Tomorrow (Friday in Australia, Thursday in the U.S.) there will be
posted to the site an installer for the mbrola voices. mbrola
voices are in addition to the eSpeak voices and offer additional
language as well as the ability to generate speech in accents. For
example English text spoke with a French accent. Some of these
voices are remarkably good. The installer is big however coming in
at over 200 megabytes.
While eSpeak and the mbrola voices are interesting to play with
what really needs to be done is to have these voices integrated
with the speech manager so they can be used system wide and not
just by the utility or from the command line.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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