From kde-accessibility Wed Oct 06 12:04:44 2004 From: Bill Haneman Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:04:44 +0000 To: kde-accessibility Subject: Re: [Kde-accessibility] Re: getting text to speech software ???? Message-Id: <1097064283.2599.41.camel () linux ! local> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-accessibility&m=109706440007300 On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 12:39, Milan Zamazal wrote: > >>>>> "BH" == Bill Haneman writes: > > BH> I would recommend FreeTTS if you don't have a strong objection > BH> to Java, or Festival if you only need to do simple reading of > BH> text files, etc. There are several voices available for either > BH> (and Festival/FreeTTS can share the same voice databases I > BH> believe). > > Festival can actually do much more than only simple reading of text > files and is a common part of software distributions which include KDE, > so I think it's generally much preferable choice over FreeTTS. Of > course, particular requirements can make one or another TTS more better > suited for a given purpose. Of course Festival _can_ do more; the main reason I suggested Festival for "simple" use rather than complex purposes is that the Festival APIs for complex use are less well documented and a little less familiar. (Basically you have an API using the Scheme language, or poorly documented C++ festival APIs). As long as you can get by using the basic festival_server interface, I agree that festival is a good choice, and you avoid the Java dependency. But if you need access to the TTS engine API, I would recommend FreeTTS instead, since Java is more familiar and the Java APIs are better documented (and currently actively under development). I am speaking here from experience with both sets of APIs. - Bill > Regards, > > Milan Zamazal > > -- > Free software is about freedom, not about free beer. If you care only about > the latter, you'll end up with no freedom and no free beer. > > _______________________________________________ > kde-accessibility mailing list > kde-accessibility@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility _______________________________________________ kde-accessibility mailing list kde-accessibility@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility