Re: Cepstral voices.

[Garry Turkington <garrys lists gmail com>]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Mike Pedersen wrote:

> The theta voices are currently supported but the swift are not.  If you
> have any experience doing drivers and wanted to do a swift driver I
> suspect that Will Walker who is the maintainer of gnome-speech might
> review it for inclusion.

Coincidentally I emailed Wil just yesterday on this very topic.  I've been 
using Cepstral Swift voices via Festival under Linux but feel that a 
native Swift driver would be a much better solution.

I'm going to look at writing a Swift driver for Gnome-speech but obviously 
don't want to duplicate effort - so if anyone else is doing such a thing 
please holler. :)

In case it's of use to the original poster , Cepstral have a Perl script 
on their website that makes Swift voices available under Festival.  I find 
the end result somewhat sluggish but since I'm doing it all under VMware 
wouldn't want to try and generalize my experiences to all cases.

Regards,
Garry