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...ons, and install the Mbrola and other goodies for all the possible different voices, then you can, while running festival in a terminal window, run the following commands (in 195): (SayText "This is the default voice. It sounds like K.E.D. Diphone?") (tts "text_to_read" nil) (voice_cstr_us_awb_arctic_multisyn) (SayText "This is AWB arctic multisyn") (tts "text_to_read" nil) (voice_cstr_us_jmk_arctic_multisyn) (SayText "This is JMK arctic multisyn") (tts "text_to_read" nil) (voice_el_diphone) (SayText "This is E.L. Diphone") (tts "text_to_read&quo...

...es coming from festival over the speakers. And, if you are having it say jokes at double speed, well, it reminds me of speed reading. There must be some lever or pulley or switch or something to modify the speed. AND Hoo boy, try putting this in your siteinit.scm file: (set! voice_default 'voice_cstr_us_awb_arctic_multisyn) and listen to this: (SayText "Hello there, kyootee pie.") (SayText "Don't you just love the sound of my voice.") (SayText "My wife, Sonya, Makes the best bread there ever was") Best synthetic voice I've ever heard. murf -- Steve Murphy Electronic Tool...