[vox] Tools for disabled

karthikeyan.balasubramanian vox@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:15:18 +0530


Hi,

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> 
> I'm not sure which one you should download.  It's been a while since I
> worked with Festival.
> 
> But as I recall, they have different voice libraries in case you want
> different voices (british, american, male, female, 8kbps quality, 16kbps
> quality, etc.) so the festvox* files are probabaly for that.  In that
> case, it shouldn't matter which one you grab as long as you got one.
> 
> I'm not sure what festlex is either, but I'm guessing they're different
> databases for translating text to speech (for example, "gh" is silent in
> "fight", so you need a database with the word "fight" that knows "gh" is
> silent.)
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Mark thank you very much, I would give it a shot.  Btw do you know 
anything about FLITE (A lighter version of Festival).

Have a great day.

> -Mark
Karthikeyan B