Linux TTS Voices

[Christopher Lemire]

What is a speech-dispatcher? And can you tell me more about spd-say
such as what speech synthesizers work with it and what. From the man
page, I see -e is called pipe mode, so I assume to use that you would
give some command (not sure what) followed by spd-say -e. How is this
software useful?

Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
Ubuntu 64 bit Linux Raid Level 0



On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Kyle <kyle4jesus at gmail.com> wrote:
> eSpeak is currently the best free/open source voice synthesizer
> available for Linux, and it's really quite good, especially considering
> its size and memory usage. I use it on my system every day and it
> definitely sounds better than flite, better than the old Microsoft
> voices such as Sam, Mary and mike and much better than the proprietary
> and unmaintained IBMTTS or ViaVoice or TTSynth or Voxin or whatever
> they're calling it now. That being said, some people are used to hearing
> the outdated voices, and there are some other proprietary voices that do
> sound good. Since it's all about user preference and giving people
> choices, an interface to speech-dispatcher may be the best thing for
> your application, unless you are writing it for personal use only.
> Something simple could basically pipe through spd-say or have its own
> simple client. Something more complex can interface directly with the
> speech-dispatcher API for much more user control and/or functionality.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Kyle
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