Oh yes I know the story of Eloquence, and ViaVoice is one the synthesizers I liked that I could use under Linux.
I also have WinTalker synthesizer for romanian installed, but as I told, I don't like it because it sounds very robotic.
Those who started using a computer by using WinTalker like it, but I don't.I like how it sounds the synthesizer that can be bought from www.expressivo.com, however it is pretty slow responsive, and the desktop program Expressivo doesn't create a sound as clear as the one that can be tested on that web site. It is not open source, but this is less relevant, because I want to use a better synth, not to create my own.
Octavian----- Original Message ----- From: "Mario Percinic" <mario.percinic@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 2:07 AMSubject: Re: Fritz Will Be Digging Into This - Window-Eyes Scripting Introduction
Well since you brought up some very good questions,let me break this message into logical pieces and give you the answers.----- Original Message ----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:26 PMSubject: Re: Fritz Will Be Digging Into This - Window-Eyes Scripting IntroductionNo ofcourse not, everyone chooses its own way. I was just stating how the situation in general works with blind popularity, no matter in what country you are. Ok ofcourse, in smaller countrys like Romania or Croatia in my case, the situation is harder but than the person has to see if the solution can be adapted for your language considering the best results, financial situation, amount of people who work on the project, timing, knoledge etc."Yes, of course I am lazy. So? Is this a problem? :-)""I don't think I can build a software synthesizer at least as good as US Eloquence by just reading the documentation and making research, without knowing C/C++."Correct, but i never said that. When i said that you can checkout espeak, i thought that you will find the documentation and the web page considering the thinks you did in the past. In order to make better improvements for espeak you really don't need to know c plus plus, ok if you know it better for you, but still you can see what sounds wrong and what you can do to make it sound better or to pronounce different characters or words, and also make different voices which really can sound completely different."There are more romanian synthesizers, but I don't like any of them, and they all are made by software companies that have more good programmers. One of them sounds pretty good but is very slow responsive, another one sounds like a robot and it doesn't work at a higher rate, another one sounds very very bad (the one which is made by the german company Baum, that company that made Gnopernicus screen reader for Linux, and Virgo screen reader for Windows)."If some company has more developers employed that doesn't need to mean anything. In my case, software solutions which were made by an individual showed up as better because the developer really showed more interest that his aplication works with all screen readers, languages, protocols etc. I worked on almost all software synth development exept Check wintalker voice which is also have adapted for Croatian language. I told you to try and join espeak development team for Romanian mainly because espeak is right now used under windows as a sapi 5, as a stand alone portable version in windows screen reader called nvda, and orca for linux and also it can work with mac. So lots of platforms are supported, just because its author is very open minded and accepts lots of suggestion as long as the person knows language rules and something about computer usage. If you need more info about speech synths you can contact me privately and i'll write you more about it."Even if I would know C/C++, I don't think that it would be easy enough to create a better synthesizer than US Eloquence. And by the way, where can we find documentation about how to create a synthesizer at least as good and fast as Eloquence?I have the documentation about sapi synths and how to make them, i can send you the book about it. Eloquence as far as i'm aware came out from IBM's via voice which became eloquence at the later time. Eloquence belongs to the group of formant speech synthesizers and that explains one of the sides why is it so responsive.I am asking this, because you seem to be very well informed..."Mario __________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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