Hi Dark, No problem. Just wanted to clarify the situation. In either case the free open source speech engines like FreeTTS, ESpeak, Festival, etc are nowhere as good as the commercial speech engines. While I can use ESpeak I own a number of commercial speech engines to for games because I prefer a more human sounding voice when and where possible.
For example, on Linux I have Voxin, a version of Eloquence for Linux, as well as a number of the Cepstral voices. If I am going to read a book, play a game, I'll use Cepstral David or Cepstral Callie because they sound more human than Espeak, Festival, or FreeTTS. The only reason I don't use the Cepstral voices full time with Orca is because they are a bit slow and choppy when typing fast and things like that. For day to day use Eloquence or ESpeak is more reliable, but less human sounding. :D Bottom line, I do understand your point about preference. If I am going to load up a game on Linux I would want to select David to be my default TTS engine and not use ESpeak. On Windows I'd probably use Realspeak Tom. It would only make sense to be able to choose what I want to use. Cheers! On 10/18/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > My mistake, I had the idea that 7-128 had! used espeak for that which as I > said was one occasion where the quality of the voice actually made playing > games difficult. > > Sinse however I do! have realspeak daniel for my sapi voice, i would > obviously prefer that in terms of quality if the game is going to output to > > something and I'm not reading with orphius. I find orphius human sounding > voices the best compromise betwene speed, responsiveness and > comprehensibility, and personally much prefer them to eloquence. i just > can't understand why they no longer ship with supernova and you need to > download them separately, indeed I think dolphin made something of a > mistake there, just giving you the choice betwene the system heavy and > therefore somewhat sluggish vocalize (which supernova starts with by > default), or the synthetic orphius voices or eloquence, which respond > quickly but are somewhat robotic. > > I was really pleased when supernova version 6 first came with the orphius > human voices preinstalled, and have been using them ever sinse (indeed I > have backup copies of them just in case). > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
