Re: Accessibility in the FreeBSD installer and console

From: Michael Gmelin <grembo_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 13:18:35 UTC

> On 8. Jul 2022, at 14:48, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> wrote:
> 
> On 7/8/22 14:34, David Chisnall wrote:
> Snipsnap
> Hi,
> 
> I've updated my patch a little bit, so please re-fetch it.
> 
> I tried:
> 
> action                  "echo -- $text | rtprio 8 /usr/local/bin/flite_cmu_us_slt"
> 
> And it doesn't sound as good as espeak :-(
> 
> Do we have more of these in ports which are know to be good?
> 

A very long time ago I used festival, which seems to exist as a package (pkg install festival festvox-voiceyouneed).

It’s quite old though (I assume that "flite" is the light version of it), back then it sounded ok, but we were easy to impress ;)

Cheers