what is the best for text to speech engine for gentoo ppc ?

ddc · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 525

i need to make my machine able to (polish) speech synthesizer a text document

emerge --searching around

{"text to speech engine", "text to speech engine", "text to voice engine",
"console screen reader",
"(polish) speech synthesizer"}

i found

# app-accessibility/festival
# Homepage: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/
# Description: Festival Text to Speech engine
# License: FESTIVAL BSD as-is

# app-accessibility/flite
# Homepage: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/index.html
# Description: Flite text to speech engine
# License: BSD as-is

# app-accessibility/yasr
# Homepage: http://yasr.sourceforge.net/
# Description: general-purpose console screen reader
# License: GPL-2

# app-accessibility/powiedz
# Description: Polish speech synthesizer based on rsynth
# License: GPL-1

what is the best to read a .txt ?
is there something better ?

regards

Bones McCracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1611 Location: U.S.A.

Have you tried orca (part of Gnome)?

ebuild:
app-accessibility/orca

web page:
http://live.gnome.org/Orca

Translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca

gringo · Advocate Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 3793

speechd ? I also saw this some time ago.

cheers
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