From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert D. Crawford" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs TTS Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:07:36 -0500 Message-ID: <87bpyaehuv.fsf@comcast.net> References: <48dcffef$0$25385$9b536df3@news.fv.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222463742 14942 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2008 21:15:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:15:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 26 23:16:40 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KjKg2-0005RY-Ne for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:16:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38363 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KjKey-0002r7-Sf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KjKef-0002p1-LU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KjKed-0002my-Uj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56139 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KjKed-0002md-JJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:45493 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KjKed-0002FC-9G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KjKeU-0000Z9-9J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:15:02 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-211-29-41.hsd1.tn.comcast.net ([98.211.29.41]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:15:02 +0000 Original-Received: from rdc1x by c-98-211-29-41.hsd1.tn.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:15:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-211-29-41.hsd1.tn.comcast.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jait7O5Upax6z2YLm/GwrPrpMdc= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58123 Archived-At: "Veli-Pekka Tätilä" writes: > BTW: The Emacspeak instructions are badly out of date. Are you talking about the installation instructions? > I haven't heard anyone sucfesfully using the ViaVoice TTS for LInux in > quite some time: You should drop by the emacspeak list or check out the archive. Many on the list, including myself, have been using the ViaVoice tts for quite a while now. > I'm on the Orca and Speechd-el lists as well as > alt.comp.blind-users. Most tend to use eSpeak or Festival as far as > the freebies go, and Dectalk or TTSynth, the same engine as in > ViaVoice and Eloquence, for commercial stuff. I am not sure I understand what you are saying. Above you say that you have not heard of anyone successfully using the ViaVoice synth and here you say TTSynth is being used. Are there differences? I was under the impression that they are the same thing. rdc -- Robert D. Crawford rdc1x@comcast.net It'll be just like Beggars' Canyon back home. -- Luke Skywalker