dectalk text to wave success!!!

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Hi Cheryl,

According to the usage notes in the readme file, if the first
argument has no spaces in it, it is assumed to be a filename. If
the second argument ends with .wav, it is assumed to be an output
file for capturing converted speech. How's that for non-obvious?
To convert and capture the sample file, go into the flite
directory and do this:

./bin/flite doc/alice alice1.wav

and then do this:

say -fi doc/alice -fo alice2.wav

and you will have two wav files of the Alice in Wonderland test
passage. The second one, from DECtalk, stops short of telling you
why the mouse and his family hate cats, and dogs are not that
much better! You don't have to listen to the whole thing if you
use wedit to pick out the sections of interest, such as the final
10% or so.

Chuck

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Hi chuck and all.
> Flite's speech isn't too good but can you tell me how you did the wave
> files with flite. I did write to fonix about this but haven't heard back.
> Festival's text2wave script fills up my /tmp before finishing on longer
> files, plus it seems to want every scrap of my memory and swap at some
> points.
> will let you know if/when i hear form fonix on this issue.
> thanks.
>
>
>

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