Other speech engines

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Al Puzzuoli wrote:
> hi Henrik and all.
>
> I personally would love to see movement away from Festival.  it's too 
> big,
> it's buggy, it's unresponsive, and for what its worth, it also doesn't 
> play
> nice with VMware.
>
> I don't know much about it myself, but a lot of folks over at the speakup
> list seem to be pretty excited about Espeak.  From what I understand, 
> it has
> a lot of potential, but needs some work.  Also, I'm not sure whether 
> anyone
> is doing a gnome-speech driver.  I don't know whether espeak can be 
> brought
> up to snuff in time for edgy inclusion, but perhaps it might be worth 
> it to
> consider expending some effort to make that happen.
Has anyone tested Festival 2? (or 1.95 I guess it is)

Does anyone have a view on which technology is fundamentally the best? 
It would be good if we could gather around one solution and push that 
forward. There seems to be a lot of fragmentation and half-baked 
implementations in this area, even for open source. [or perhaps I should 
say, even for academic projects, as that is what most speech engines are.]

- Henrik