On Thursday 01 March 2018 13:11:09 fredvs wrote: > > > Your espeak-ng ./configure shows: > > Yes. > > But following: > https://www.devmanuals.net/install/ubuntu/ubuntu-17-04-lts-Zesty-Zapus/inst >alling-espeak-ng-on-ubuntu17.04.html > > sudo apt-get install espeak-ng (the "classical" way to install espeak-ng > executable) gives: > "espeak-ng package not found". > Your Ubuntu installation or your repository setup seems to be broken. Suggestion: build and install it from source.
> Taste and color is something very personal. > > In my case, I prefer the architecture of espeak (that uses portaudio only, > without any exotic pcaudiolib or libsonic libraries). > Espeak project is abandoned and dead, see for example the official website: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ last commit was in 2015. pcaudiolib is a small library which provides cross platform audio support like portaudio. sonic AFAIK is a FFT lib optimized for speech synthesizing purpose. Both are parts of the espeak-ng project AFAIK. sonic is optional, you don't need it if you don't want to benefit from it's performance gain. > Also for the quality of sound, my ears prefer the result of espeak vs > espeak-ng. > That is strange, you should submit your findings as bug reports: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues > But, like I said earlier, it is a question of taste. > (And I prefer the original vs the copy, Coca-cola vs Pepsi-cola, Intel vs > AMD, ....) > That is your choice... Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
