[DECtalk] mbrola voices for nvda

[Tony Baechler]

Part of the problem is with ESpeak doing the phoneme translation.  If you
try the Mbrola demos, the voices sound much nicer, at least to my ears.
When I use ESpeak to convert text into phonemes which it passes to Mbrola, I
didn't like the voice quality either.  I never owned an Audapter, but the
demos reminded me of it.  I would like to get an Audapter if anyone has one
they don't want.  Ideally, what should happen is a different phoneme
processor should be used, but that would require someone writing one.
Mbrola actually has a lot of flexibility and isn't much different from
DECtalk in some regards if you don't mind doing your own phoneme translation.

On 6/29/2015 5:31 PM, Blake Roberts via Dectalk wrote:
> I just discovered that although I copied the link after visiting the MBROLA
> download page, it leads back to the home page. To download the tools binary
> and voices select the "download" link and then your operating system. Like
> Alex, I don't like the voices either. I tried the voices via Jake's NVDA
> add-on this morning after installing onto an XP system. The only thing I
> could htink was "Yuck!" I don't like the quality of MBROLA voices.
> Blake
>