Re: Multilingual synthesis

[Tomas Cerha <cerha brailcom org>]

Peter Parente wrote:
>> Right. The problem is, not a single free engine covers the different
>> languages I need. So I have to change voice and driver (festival and
>> espeak from speech-dispatcher). And don't you get sound device
>> blocking problems?
> 
> Understood. We don't support switching of the driver and voice yet
> automatically, but it's not inconceivable.

Speech Dispatcher solves this completely.  You can set prefered drivers
for each language and any conflicts are solved by Speech Dispatcher's
queuing and priority mechanism.  Since Speech Dispatcher also handles
speech output, no problems with the output device arise.

Best regards, Tomas