According to Fernando Botelho:
# Well, since Voxin is no longer for sale, this might be a good time for
# us to get started on improving espeak in Spanish.
Googling and looking on the website, I don't think it's no longer for
sale, but it's so badly outdated, and takes so much ancient code to
I totally agree that we need to work on FoS alternatives to the IBMtts; but for
now for some languages voxin is the most viable alternative. I don't want to
see the day where folks must keep using old operating system(s) just to have an
understandable voice in their language, but this day is
W dniu 2013-05-07 14:28, Kyle napisał(a):
Android voices should be even easier than SAPI voices to make work
with
speech-dispatcher, since x86 builds of Android are now available, and
the voices need to be built for it, making them one step closer to
x86-based desktop Linux.
Question is: are
Hello,
Most likelly you have been working with kobaspeech voices as this is the
way to get the realspeak voices as sapi5. They are however implemented
slightly differently than most other voices e.g. acapella. There was
also an issue with loading kobaspeech voices in NVDA.
I will try to look
Ethanak, thank you your answer. Future what research need doing if
longer time period would like prowide hungarian users alternate
hungarian voices any speech sinthesis? If this is possible, better
prefer opensource solutions. Now, only Espeak awailable with supports
good hungarian language
Svox Classic TTS engine with Ubuntu?
W dniu 2013-05-07 14:28, Kyle napisał(a):
Android voices should be even easier than SAPI voices to make work
with speech-dispatcher, since x86 builds of Android are now available,
and the voices need to be built for it, making them one step closer to
x86
Hy Don,
I am not full sure, but I think Pico TTS doesn't support Svox Classic
TTS voices, but possible this is already changed with newest Ubuntu
versions. Currently Svox Pico TTS supports following languages (I looked
with Ubuntu 12.04 the /usr/share/pico/lang directory):
German, english (GB and
The svox voices were donated I thought, or was this only for Windows usage?
I don't like pico svox at all for English, but found them quite listenable in
French, and a much better alternative to espeak for Spanish; and at the moment
the only alternative for Spanish in Linux that's of quality
Hy,
With Android awailable the Svox Classic TTS engine, this TTS have
natural sound persons I think with 24 languages, hungarian language is
awailable this engine.
With Ubuntu repositoryes I think only the Svox Pico TTS awailable.
Possible using the Svox Classic text to speech engine anyway an
Unfortunately the SVox Classic voices, as far as I know, are only built
for Android, and an interface to be able to use speech-dispatcher is not
currently available for desktop Linux. It's likely that x86 binaries
would speak with the right dependencies, but I doubt that the Pico
module for
Someone with experience adapting voices for use with Orca/speech
dispatcher is:
Bohdan R. Rau
etha...@polip.com
He was working on adapting SAPI voices for use in Linux through Wine.
Maybe his experience would help with this.
On 05/07/2013 09:09 AM, Kyle wrote:
Unfortunately the SVox Classic
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