From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 5 18:43:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC7A5106566B for ; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:43:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7557B8FC18 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:43:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n95IftPe047211; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 11:41:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 11:43:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 11:43:38 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Bernt Hansson Message-ID: <20091005184338.GA44739@thought.org> References: <20091002071528.0B3B710656F0@hub.freebsd.org> <4AC5ED1E.3820.4B0A319@d.forsyth.ru.ac.za> <20091002154838.GA9446@thought.org> <4AC7D242.9080505@bah.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AC7D242.9080505@bah.homeip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: DA Forsyth , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NO ONE knows?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:43:49 -0000 On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 12:37:54AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Gary Kline skrev: > > > What I'm looking for is how to use the ``better than the > > default voices''; there are several english languages that > > are fairly natural sounding. Nothing I've googled explain > > using the quality voices for FreeBSD. > > > > gary > > http://espeak.sourceforge.net/docindex.html Tried/found this before at least once. The cmdline: % espeak mb-en1 "hello" outputs the string data that "hello" is composed on. Following further with the linux example is difficult because there is no "usr/local/share/espeak/en1" --neither file nor directory. I did locate the 796-byte data file: /usr/local/share/espeak/espeak-data/mbrola_ph/en1_phtrans but don't have a clue. From what I've been able to glean, this mbrola stuff is > ten years old. Whoever was laboring away just dropped it. I've dug into this computer generated speech just a tiny bit. Yes, it is possible to have Very real-sounding voices, nearly human-sounding. But the complexity is extreme. No wonder the high-quality voices cost $thousands. Suggestions? gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php