Re: Festival vs. F-lite disk space requirements

2006-02-24 Thread Willie Walker
FreeTTS (a Java-based engine) is based on logic from Festival and Flite, though it really is mostly a Flite clone in Java. Like Festival, it consists of core logic that can operate on voice data. To get a small set, you could ship only what's needed for the kevin voices, but you'd probabl

Re: Festival vs. F-lite disk space requirements

2006-02-24 Thread Willie Walker
Hi: If one looks at the Venn diagram of Festival/Flite/FreeTTS, the common logic is quite similar, but Festival's circle is much much larger than the other two. The common logic from this Venn diagram basically consists of a process of preprocessing input text, selecting units to play, c

Re: Festival vs. F-lite disk space requirements

2006-02-24 Thread Jan Buchal
> "BH" == Bill Haneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BH> Arrgh, sorry, I was thinking of FreeTTS, FreeTTS is good solution but for the future. Unfortunately FreeTTS not support other languages now. BH> which was a sort of direct descendant of Flite. The flite docs BH> imply that y

Re: Festival vs. F-lite disk space requirements

2006-02-24 Thread Bill Haneman
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 13:09, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: > Bill Haneman wrote: > > Henrik: > > > > I think Flite uses the same file format. ( Will, please correct me if > > I'm wrong). > By same format you mean the same speech files? So what is the main > benefit of F-lite, a smaller memory footpr

Re: Festival vs. F-lite disk space requirements

2006-02-24 Thread Jan Buchal
> "HNO" == Henrik Nilsen Omma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HNO> Hello, We are working on packaging screen reader support for HNO> the Ubuntu Live CD, but have gotten ourselves a little confused HNO> regarding file sizes ... HNO> Being a Live CD we are quite limited on disk spac

Re: Festival vs. F-lite disk space requirements

2006-02-24 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Bill Haneman wrote: Henrik: I think Flite uses the same file format. ( Will, please correct me if I'm wrong). By same format you mean the same speech files? So what is the main benefit of F-lite, a smaller memory footprint? (and java cross-platformness) It also requires a Java JRE, are you p

Re: Festival vs. F-lite disk space requirements

2006-02-24 Thread Bill Haneman
Henrik: I think Flite uses the same file format. ( Will, please correct me if I'm wrong). It also requires a Java JRE, are you planning to include Java in the live CD? BTW, in the past, Java was required for OpenOffice.org accessibility, but that's not true of the latest version. Bill On Fri,

Festival vs. F-lite disk space requirements

2006-02-24 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Hello, We are working on packaging screen reader support for the Ubuntu Live CD, but have gotten ourselves a little confused regarding file sizes ... Being a Live CD we are quite limited on disk space. We were thinking that we should use the smaller F-lite, rather than the full Festival, ass