today flite and dectalk, tomorrow the world

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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I am elated. I have had a chronic failure to be able to compile
festival and speech-tools on this Slackware 9.1 system for a long
time, but today decided, after all the talk here, to try the
dectalk RT with speechd-up and speech-dispatcher. That last
requires flite, and my apprechensions about compiling it were
evidently groundless. It just finished compiling in about ten
minutes, and it works! It sounds shitty, but it works.

I kept an eye on memory usage while it was compiling, and during
a portion of the compile it was using all but about 32K of my
256M of ram, plus about 90% of my 256M swap space. I gather it
was converting voice files from Festival from that unique format
into standard C code, a very ambitious compile task. But it
worked, and I now have two speech engines functional.

As I said, tomorrow the world.

Chuck


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