Speakup Soft Speech--What's the status?

[Janina Sajka]

Thanks, Cheryl. Is your configuration very different from that for DEC Talk at this point. If so, would you mind sending it along?

Cheryl Homiak writes:
> As for the status of work on various software synths:
> I had done some work 
> with cepstral, basically modifying the 
> dtk-generic.conf and changing its name to cpstrl.conf. I like using the 
> voice with speakup, but I have not so far been able to get rate to work 
> correctly. Also, speech abruptly gets lost and I haven't figured out why, 
> though really haven't had more time to work on it lately. I am pretty sure 
> I did post what I had done on the list; would like to get back to it 
> eventually but anybody else who wants to work on it certainly is welcome.
> In my own personal opinion (and these things always are a matter of 
> opinion!) cepstral sounds the best with speakup of the softsynths, so I'm 
> sorry about the sudden losses of speech.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> 
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
> 
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