speech dispatcher again

[Kristoffer Gustafsson]

Hello!
If I would like to remove a voice is it enough to just delete the voice
directory in festival?
I did that because I didn't want ked_diphone.
I didn't like him.
is this the way it shall be done?
/kristoffer
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:39:03 +0100, "Michael Whapples"
<Mikster4 at msn.com> said:
> I don't know about the problem with using cepstral as a festival voice.
> As I 
> said, speechd-up only can access the first three festival voices. Let's
> say 
> you had don_diphone, kal_diphone, ked_diphone and rab_diphone voices 
> installed, speechd-up can only access don_diphone, kal_diphone and 
> ked_diphone. You would not be able to access rab_diphone without removing 
> one of the voices before it e.g. don_diphone.
> 
> when I referred to writing a module for the cepstral voices, I meant
> taking 
> the generic one, and altering the configuration file, like it has been
> done 
> for using dectalk software synth. This would not require any knowledge of
> C 
> or C++. I am considering trying to do this for myself, so if I do it, I 
> could let you have the file. I don't know when I will manage to do this,
> I 
> am quite busy at the moment.
> From
> Mike
> "An optimist is someone who has never had much experience"
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kristoffer Gustafsson" <skeeter at allmail.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 2:22 PM
> Subject: Re: speech dispatcher again
> 
> 
> Hello!
> I'm not very good in c or c++ so I don't think that writing a module is
> something for me.
> 
> Cepstral voices do work with festival. I've tried it.
> My cepstral voice (david) works  in a test with speech dispatcher, the
> general.test. when setting another language.
> It tries to speak french, but it doesn't sound good.
> 
> so the voice is accessible in some way through dispatcher, but not with
> speechd_up.
> 
> what can be wrong?
> /kristoffer
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:44:42 +0000, "Michael Whapples"
> <mikster4 at msn.com> said:
> > I haven't heard of using cepstral voices as a festival voice, but
> > I don't know all about festival. I have had some problems with
> > speech-dispatcher accessing some festival voices before although
> > festival can access them. You may find that it might be easier to
> > write a speech-dispatcher module for cepstral using the generic one as a
> > guide. they seem to be fairly well commented. to get the information for
> > the
> > parameters that you would need, view the output from swift --params.
> > from
> > Mike
> > Kristoffer Gustafsson writes:
> >
> > > Hello!
> > > Thanks, it works with changing the voices.
> > > now to my next problem.
> > > I can't seem to get the voice I want to use work with speakup.
> > > The voice I want is the cepstral david voice I have installed as well.
> > > It works as a festival voice.
> > >
> > > I removed the us2_mbrola voice since i have ked_diphone and kal_diphone
> > > as default voices when installing a festival binary.
> > > but I can't get cepstral to work.
> > > any ideas?
> > > /kristoffer
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