A Second Festival Module for Speakup

[Dawes, Stephen]

What is your web site again Owen?

Do you have a link to the festival site on it?

I'm curious to give your stuff a try.


Stephen Dawes  <B.A., B.Sc.>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen Patrick Smith [mailto:ender3rd at WPI.EDU] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:30 AM
> To: Jacob Schmude
> Cc: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: A Second Festival Module for Speakup
> 
> 
> The thing about the shutup key was a miscommunication between 
> me and one of my parteners when we were discussing what might 
> be wrong.  Apparently what happened is that Speakup clobbers 
> certain characters and right before we published our code we 
> changed the SYNTH_CLEAR_CHAR to one of these values as 
> opposed to '!' which we had been using for debugging reasons. 
> Our website now has a link to an updated version of the code 
> which should resolve the shutup problem.  The new version 
> should also amoriolate the delay problem because our 
> middleware program now sends the data to the TTS program in 
> one-line chunks instead of the previous one-word chunks, a 
> change that also should improve the intonation of the output. 
>  However this also means that, at present, the program will 
> only shutup at the end of a line.  A few other bugs were also 
> fixed in this release, mostly related to dealing with full 
> buffers.  Please give the new code a try and let us know if 
> it helps to fix the problems.
> 
> As notes our code should be voice/ALSA/OSS independant and 
> although there is a slightly newer version of festival 
> available (1.4.3) that should not be an issue.  As to 
> including Mbrola it is on our list although since it does not 
> have full TTS capability but only phoneme-to-sound an 
> additional layer of software will be required so it may be a while.
> 
> HtH
> 
> Owen
> 
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> 
> > Hi Well, keypad minus says "parked/unparked" just like it used to. 
> > Also, keypad enter was the shut-up key for my doubletalk 
> which I ran 
> > this same CVS on until it quit a few days ago, so I don't 
> see how the 
> > shut-up key is keypad minus. In any case it still won't shut up at 
> > all, even when pressing other keys with interrupt enabled. Nothing 
> > shuts it up. Not sure if it's relevant, but I'm using the 
> ALSA drivers 
> > as the kernel-packaged drivers do not support my chip. 
> Festival works 
> > fine with the alsa drivers, but you never know, I'm using 
> it through 
> > the OSS emulation. Also I've noticed that before starting to speak 
> > something new, I here the letter "f". This happens whenever 
> I initiate 
> > speech or when speakup starts talking on its own, it does 
> not happen 
> > between words. I'm running festival 1.4.2 which seems to be 
> the latest 
> > version. Is there a newer version I should be getting? 
> Also, should it 
> > matter what voice I use (not that it made a difference on this 
> > system)? I rather like the mbrola_us2 voice and so have festival 
> > running that. But the regular US english voice (kal16K) 
> produced the 
> > same results. Out of curiosity, is mbrola one of the synths on the 
> > todo list? It's smaller than festival (not as small as 
> flite) but has 
> > better sound quality. On
> 
> 
> 
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