Making flite more responsive and improving its pronounciation

[Steve Holmes]

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Can you explain these parms a bit? Curious minds want to know.  How
did you come by the particular numeric values you did?

One other observation I'm noticing with DECtalk; When
speech-dispatcher first says "Software synth found," the DEC is at
something like Double pitch or some such.  I have to set a lower pitch
to get the voice to sound right for the rest of the session.  I'm
running Slackware 10.1 with the default compiler gcc 3.3.4.  This
sounds like a problem reported back with earlier versions of Redhat if
I recall.  Any ideas about the high pitch deal?

Thanks.

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:00:25AM -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm using DECtalk e.  It was a free upgrade from version 4.  You might
> want to try it and see if it fixes your problem.
> 
> I did impro8e the speech by adding additional palameters to my say
> commands.
> I added
> 
> [:dv ri 90 sm 0][:pe -380][:ra 350][:dv ap 130]
> 
> Hope this helps.
>            Kenny
> 	   
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:15:00PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Hi, Luke:
> > 
> > I've tried both flite and DEC Talk 4. I haven't bought 5 and don't plan
> > to. Response is the same. The speech is extremely choppy so that I'm
> > only comfortable hearing it while reviewing the screen.
> > 
> > Last year I had a Thinkpad T30 which was much better. So, I don't
> > understand where the breakdown is.
> > 
> > Luke Yelavich writes:
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> > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:55:13AM EST, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > > May I say that I am unhappy with the lack of responsivness using
> > > > software speech with Speakup on a 1.13 Ghz machine? So, I can barely
> > > > grok a Pentium 90.
> > > 
> > > Is that with flite/festival? As I am using DecTalk 5 on a 
> > > ThinkPad R50, 1.4Ghz and it is very responsive.
> > > - -- 
> > > Luke
> > 
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