Re: Orca free text-to-speech engines for orca?

[Lorenzo Taylor <lorenzo taylor homelinux net>]

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According to Thomas Ward:
# Unfortunately, there is no such text to speech engine out there that is 
# both free and is good. There are the Festival based tts engines like 
# festival, flite, and FreeTTS, but in my opinion the voices are terrible 
# ones like Dectalk and so on can be sluggish as well, but the voices are.

This is actually no longer true.  There is a good free TTS called eSpeak
which is compatible with speech-dispatcher.  The voice is far superior
to festival/flite and the responsiveness is superior to dectalk.  More
info can be found at
http://espeak.sourceforge.net

HTH,
Lorenzo
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