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Old 06-22-2005, 03:25 PM   #1
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Text to speech in linux?


can you recommend a tts engine that works in linux and is good in quality?

thanks
 
Old 06-22-2005, 03:52 PM   #2
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A quick search on Google yielded this article:
http://www.freeos.com/articles/2613/

I played with Festival once a few years ago; it worked quite well and was certainly understandable while not being entirely natural-sounding; it may have improved since then.
 
Old 06-22-2005, 04:17 PM   #3
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festival produce sound of low quality like the MS tts engine did.......
 
Old 06-22-2005, 04:22 PM   #4
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Speech Synthesis & Analysis Software
http://linux-sound.org/speech.html
 
  


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