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- Subject: Re: just a newbi problem, want to use festival, not flite with emacspeak
- From: Lukas Loehrer <listaddr1@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:01:05 +0200
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Some observations: I just tried speech dispatcher with festival again. I am using fspeech dispatcher via speechd-el this time. I am using the packages from Debian unstable. When using the flite output module of speech dispatcher, responsiveness is the same as with eflite in emacspeak. When using the festival output module in speech dispatcher, some of the problems seen in espeakf go away. Speech stops immediately when it should. However, there is a noticeable pause between the moment a command is issued and the corresponding speech starts. I cannot tell if the pause is silence generated by the tts or if it takes that long for the speech to be synthesized. In the latter case, a faster machine might in fact help. Thus, it seems that if one is looking for good responsiveness, festival used through either espeakf or speech-dispatcher should not be one's first choice. things look differently if priorities lie with support for multiple voices or languages. Best regards, Lukas ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your address on the emacspeak list send mail to "emacspeak-request@cs.vassar.edu" with a subject of "unsubscribe" or "help"