On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm wondering if there's anything we can do to make TTS sound more > 'human'. We'd like to be able to use the XOs to teach English > literacy, but the espeak voices are very robotic. > > My understanding is that espeak is optimised for low-power devices > (great for XOs) and clear (if robotic) speech. Would it be feasible to > switch to something else, like festival? > You might want to look at speed-dispatcher. It can be configured for multiple backends. Its already packaged in Fedora. Peter
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