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 for the average user to use on a production system is Voxin, (IBMtts). I certainly don't mind paying the $5 U.S. that a Voxin voice costs, but alternatives would certainly be welcomed. I am a big espeak fan, and do want to work with J.D. to try and improve Spanish when ever I get the chance to make some decent recordings, but no one nor two synths will be for everyone. BTW-does anyone have experience with Festival and Spanish? -- B.H.
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 08:28:46AM -0400, Kyle wrote: > According to Fernando Botelho: > # Someone with experience adapting voices for use with Orca/speech > # dispatcher is: > # Bohdan R. Rau > # [email protected] > # > # He was working on adapting SAPI voices for use in Linux through Wine. > # Maybe his experience would help with this. > > 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. The main issue is going to be convincing the > developers of such voices that many of us would be interested in > purchasing them for a desktop Linux operating system, which would go a > long way toward resolving any remaining incompatibilities and also would > avoid licensing problems that could arise from running a voice on > something other than the intended platform. Only the speech-dispatcher > module would need to be figured out at that point. Of course the voices > would need to be built for x86_64 as well, but in most cases this > shouldn't cause significant problems. > ~Kyle > http://kyle.tk/ > -- > "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" > Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie" > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
