I am exploring text to speech and am looking at either espeak or festival. Espeak works out of the box, but it sounds terrible to me (very computer / robotic and the phonemes do not sound smoothly constructed, there is a little bit of static between them). I also looked at festival which does appear to sound better (at least from what I listened to on youtube); however, after installing that (and a language), I am getting "Can't access NAS server".
1. Is it just me, or is there static between phonemes with espeak?
2. WIth Festival, how do I get past the "Can't access NAS server" error? I set the default voice to get past that original error, so there is a voice installed. Is it looking for a server somewhere?
1. Is it just me, or is there static between phonemes with espeak?
2. WIth Festival, how do I get past the "Can't access NAS server" error? I set the default voice to get past that original error, so there is a voice installed. Is it looking for a server somewhere?