A Second Festival Module for Speakup

[Owen Patrick Smith]

We thought that we'd fixed that problem, that was one of the main
difficulties that slowed development over the past couple of weeks.  The
delay I'm not sure about can you send me your system specs privately?  The
pitch_string bit is a known bug.

Thanks for your support,

Owen Smith
ender3rd at wpi.edu

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Jacob Schmude wrote:

> Hi I've actually got this module working. Compiled and ran just fine.
> Just one problem though: I can't shut it up! Is silencing speech one of
> the things that wasn't implemented yet? Because if it is that should be
> the first thing to get working, only thing worse than a computer that
> won't talk is one that talks too much. Also, I've noticed a long delay,
> probably about 1 second, between each word spoken and am hearing things
> like "pitch_string" in between keystrokes, and before reading starts. Is
> this normal for the current state of the module, or have I missed a step
> in installation? Hey, it talks, that's more than what it did before.
> Progress, right? I'll still use yasr with eflite until the speakup
> module can learn to shut up, though the voice quality is nowhere what I
> get when I link festival and mbrola together. Keep working on it, guys.
>