[clug-talk] Speech?

[Joe S]

On February 6, 2010 06:47:26 pm Shawn wrote:
> I came across Festival, via Ktts and Kmouth.  You can pipe text into
> it via a command line script.  Something like this:
>
>   echo "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave." | festival --tts
>
> Which means that ANYTHING that can be boiled down to a text steam is
> fair game.  Doing a "cat somefile" works just as well.
>
> With a little digging, I managed to switch the voice to a female
> voice, though it still is not quite as smooth as it should be.
>
> I think my next task then is to write a script that can create the
> summary statements I want.  Python seems to have some speech
> capabilities...
>
> Shawn

Are there any good voices for Festival or Flite? I tried those awhile 
back and they didn't sound very easy to listen to.