Mbrola Espeak Confusing

[Christopher Lemire]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:06 PM,  <christopher.lemire at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was about to continue developing my Text To Speech software some more, and
> have it use mbrola voices.
>
> I looked at the documentation here.
>
> file:///usr/share/doc/espeak/mbrola.html (note: this opens in Firefox or
> your webbrowser of choice.)
>
> And it says
>
> "The Mbrola voices are cost-free but are not open source. They are available
> from the Mbrola website at:
> http://www.tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/mbrcopybin.html"
>
> So I go to that website, and there are many downloads listed. I'd like to
> know what the differences are and what each download is for.
>
> From the website:
>
> # LINUX i386 / ppc / alpha / ultra1                           <-- these I am
> not certain about
> # LINUX / Pocket PC                                              <-- This
> must be for a PDA running Linux
> # LINUX / Ircha / Mbrola / ES1 DBA / Z80                <-- I don't know
> what the different downloads here are for, but I'd like to know
>                                                                            
>    what each are. They may all be beneficial to the program I am creating.
> # AMD64/Linux                                                      <-- this
> one is obviously for Linux users running a 64-bit kernel
> # ARM/Linux (tested on Nokia N800 and N810)         <-- this one is obvious
> it runs on cell phones
>
> Could someone please explain. It's not the programming I am stuck on. It is
> things like this that I must understand in order to further the program. If
> you'd like to try out the program, it's available here. It runs with the
> java included from the package sun-java6-jre. You wlil already have this
> package if you have installed sun-java6-plugin, the sun java plugin for web
> browsers.
>
> http://nanomachine.byethost22.com/files/
>
> It runs with the command
> java -jar TTSReader.jar
>
> Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
> Ubuntu 64 bit Linux Raid Level 0
>
>

bump!

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