A Second Festival Module for Speakup

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
Thanks for working on this so quickly. The delay problem's gone, and the 
shut up key works as expected--almost. It does shut it up, but I 
hear"asterisk squeak asterisk" every time I use it, so I have to be careful 
not to use it more than once or it won't stop saying that. Before speakup 
speaks I also here the letter F.
A small suggestion: festival works best, when speaking by line, if a period 
(.) is put after the line. Just something I've noticed while working with 
it. At present the module seems to have a bit of trouble finishing all its 
statements at once, which is why I suggest this. Sure it may mess up the 
intonation a little but it'll still be the best software synth solution for 
linux. Not like festival really has much intonation in its default settings 
anyway. Hey, this is certainly progress. Too bad software synths won't be 
small enough to fit on root disks... but I suppose nothing can be done 
about that.


At 13:29 4/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>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.
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