I tried eSpeak and pronouncing some of my contacts.
You were right.
It felt like Stephen Hawking on speed. There must be a better voice synth.

Put a non-gravity filter like this on it and the speed might even out


I'm following this thread with great interest. So much good stuff in the works for the N9 lately

LOL
Some of us never stopped improving the platform.

Well can report back that Sphinx was ported by Mikkos counterpart,Max,in New Zealand and the results,even with tweaking,are worse than eSpeak.`Dark Vader with a really bad head-cold ` is a very good description of the end result So Max is continuing to port Festival,but reports that the scripts are very similar thus believes the results will be comparable.He also suggested that many other synth scripts hes studied are incomplete university projects.But there may be light at the end of the tunnel.....Let me explain.

I was on the companies live feed site discussing voice synthesis (hey i`m bored....4 weeks R&R ) and it was suggested that I contact the supplier of our two way radios who happens to be a New Zealand company.Why? All the radios we use have a highly refined speech synthesis system very similar to what is required to complete this project.As our work involves working in extremely noisy environments,180dB plus,all operators wear an earpiece and throat mike to activate the VOX system.What this allows the operators to do is `request`.An example is when you can ask to be connected to `Stevie`,an operator somewhere onsite,a husky (very sexy) female voice repeats your request and processes it,even telling you `you are connected`.You have the conversation and end it by saying `end`.It also allows you to dial out,take messages and preview them back.The system also sleeps,to preserve battery,and to awaken it,just say `wake`.Then the husky female voice says `system awake ****** ( your name)`.Theres a option available for `added real voice modules`.So,if you want,you can change the voice on your radio to,let says,Japanese,if you speak it,but it auto translate to the module on the receiving radio and visa versa. There are 300 options that can be programmed into either individual radios or as a group.

But,as we have to change radio frequencies to suit the mine site we are based on,to avoid band clashes and overlaps,we have all the software,with all options,available to us,allowing reprogramming of the radios individually or OTA .

Sooooo,Max is going to look at this software and decide if it can be ported,and secondary,if the suppliers of the radio software will allow us access.

How very weird and thus probably a good solution! Good luck!

Sometimes answers to the most difficult of problems can arise from the strangest of places.

I think eSpeak is not that much bad.. We can start with eSpeak and we can change latter stage when ever we find better one

It is up to you, just it is my comment

Hello everybody
Any update?

I wanna use it too.. Specially with my Bluetooth Headset in the car!

Hello ghost_who_walks,

We all are eagerly waiting for you update on development, please post some comments..