[email protected] (Wes Peters) writes: > available for "home" computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use > SAM "the Software Automated Mouth" for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?)
Yes. It's almost surprising how little speech synthesis has improved, at least judging from the festival demos (it is, of course, better than SAM, but apparently the data and processing requirements are several orders of magnitude greater). I haven't downloaded all of the required stuff, yet, so I don't know how good or bad it actually might be. I certainly don't expect any of the available voices to be able to pronounce Finnish names correctly, even with phonetic specifications. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
