fokus

Hi,
I need text to speech synthesizer for spanish language in emebeded device build on linux.
I looking for some free solution (C/C++) and i found festival, espeak, flite.

festival - speech is good but is too slow and and too difficult for setting (lot of scripts in SCHEMA)
espeak - speech is worse as in festival but speed and settings are on good quality
flite - i think speech quality is little better as espeak. speed and setting are on good quality too.
I would like use flite but spanish language is not support. if i want use spanish language i have to convert voice to flite source code but i don't know how (it's too difficult).
on page:
h t t p : / / w w w . s p e e c h . c s .c m u . e d u /flite/doc/flite_8.html#SEC19
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Flite: a small, fast speech synthesis engine - 8 Converting FestVox Voices[/url]
is tutorial how can i do it but i think is too little for beginner in tts like me. I don't know where from i can download language, where it unpack...

Can me somebody help how can i do it? or have somebody source code flite with converted spanish voice to source code? or somebody have better tip for text to speech synthesizer ?

...thx

Rubberman

This is a good question. An open source speech synthisis application that can be internationalized (used with many languages) would be most useful. If you find a solution to your problem, please let us (me) know. I deal with a lot of Spanish speaking clients, and while I am bi-lingual, a number of manufacturers want things like assembly instructions delivered in verbal form a lot of the time.

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fokus

If you are looking for free open source program for linux IMHO best choice is festival. Today i found better spanich voices to festival than "default" el_diphone voice. try

festvox-palpc16k - male
v6.guadalinex.org/guadalinex-buho/pool/main/f/festvox-palpc16k/festvox-palpc16k_1.0.0_all.deb

festvox-sflpc16k - female
v6.guadalinex.org/guadalinex-buho/pool/main/f/festvox-sflpc16k/festvox-sflpc16k_1.0.0_all.deb

or try use google with festvox-palpc16k or festvox-sflpc16k maybe can find better

or if you want comecial solution try e.g acapela