Flite Still Using 8 Bit Voice?

ameer armaly ameer at charter.net
Fri May 7 17:59:10 EDT 2004


How do you get speech dispatcher to use the 16 bit voice?  I just tried
that, and the regular flite voice sounds a lot less strange, and is a lot
easier to understand.


On Fri, 7 May 2004, Steve Holmes wrote:

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> When I compiled flite with --with-vox=..., it does compile and build
> static and shared versions of borth voices; kal and kal16.  When I run
> the flite command, I do hear clearer speech.  Right now, I can type
> flite "test phrase" and then type spd-say "test phrase" and I do hear
> distictively different voice qualities.  In fact, eflite defaults to
> the better voice too.  I had speakup and emacspeak both talking at the
> same time the other day.  Talk about funny geeky stuff:).
>
> On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:18:29AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
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> > That is my experience, too, Richard. Both voices seem to get
> > compiled whether I use the --with-vox option or not, but the
> > 8-bit voice still gets used either way. Another example of the
> > same steps leading to different results.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > On Thu, 6 May 2004, Richard Wells wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I followed Steve's advice on compiling a 16 bit
> > > voice for Flite. I already had the 8 bit voice compiled so now I assume
> > > that they are both compiled. How do I switch between them? I still hear
> > > the 8 bit voice when I type stuff in quotes or pipe a text file to Flite.
> > > What did I miss?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
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