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Joel_Mckay 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source T...

Custom voices could be added, but the speed was more important to some users.

$ ls -lh /usr/bin/flite

Listed as 27K last I checked.

I recall some Blind users were able to decode Gordon 8-bit dialogue at speeds most people found incomprehensible. =3

anthk 10 months ago [–]

I'm not blind but spoken English it's far more difficult to grasp than written one (I'm a non-native speaker), and Flite runs on n270 netbooks at crazy speeds with really good enough voices.

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