[lojban] Re: Using TTS to create lojbanic spoken text

[Jonathan Duddington <jsd@clara.co.uk>]

On 20 Oct, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> apparently there are a "variants" on the voices.  maybe I'll have to
> play with some of them to try to get something more natural sounding.

Yes, the female variant is not a good choice.  eSpeak makes a "female"
voice from the male voice by just increasing the pitch and adjusting
the speech formants.

If you are using the development version of eSpeak from:
http://espeak.sf.net/test/latest.html

try the variant "m7".

espeak -v jbo+m7



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