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Question about Text To Speech W/ Esound

Posted by Cliff on from the spoken-word dept.

Henry Cipolla asks: "Somebody recently asked a question about text to speech with Linux. Following the links brought me to festival, but I could not find anything that worked happily with Esound. Does anybody know of any hacks or patches or whatnot that will allow some sort of text to speech under Esound?"

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  1. esddsp by Ethan · · Score: 3

    I had good luck using esddsp with festival. It does seem to produce its output at 8bit, though, and does not sound as good as without EsounD. It is very understandable, though.

    There may be a way to fix those minor caveats, I didn't spend much time on it. It worked well enough for me. *And* I could redirect the audio to another server for extra kicks... It's great to watch someone jump as their computer starts talking to them!
    Ethan