speakup and cepstral?

[Cheryl Homiak]

I just bought one of the voices for cepstral and am wondering if it meets
the qualifications for use with speech-dispatcher and speakup. I have no
experience with this kind of thing and don't know how to proceed, so
please don't laugh at me for what I did as a preliminary experiment. I
copied dtk-generic.conf to a file called cpstrl-generic.conf and changed
/usr/local/bin/say to /usr/local/bin/theta, but I didn't know what else
would have to be done to map the variables so just for starters I did
nothing to them. Then I added the cpstrl-generic to my AddModules with the
sd_generic module and the appropriate .conf file and made this the
default.
it actually came up speaking, but it wants to interpret and repeat the
variables on the line with it; for instance it doesn't say $Voice; it says
something about Paul instead, and gives the pitch and rate numbers. but it
also does repeat one's input and the screen's output, so I think there
might be help. I do realize that what I did was a very elementary
experiment; i was gratified that it gave me any speech output at all.
I'm not trying to push this off on anybody else to work on; in fact, I'd
like to try it, but I might be in over my head. would somebody be willing
to give me an idea what steps I should take in trying to get this to
work? Now, if anybody knows that for
some reason this can't be done, go ahead and let me know so I don't waste
my time and drive everybody on the list crazy.
I'm using the "Frank" voice and it sounds quite good. I may buy other
voices eventually but thought one voice would be a good start.
By the way, cepstral does a nice job with wave files.




-- 
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."