Script for software speech

[Gregory Nowak]

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Before writing the script, I started speechd-up at highest priority,
followed by manually starting speech-dispatcher and festival with
highest priorities in regressive testing. I found that only giving
highest priority to speechd-up made speech more fluid. I didn't try
any other priority combinations, and from my point of view decreasing
the priority of speech-dispatcher would be counter-intuitive when it
came to more fluid speech.

Ultimately, after writing the script, I found that the greatest cause
of halting speech was festival, and discovered to my pleasant
surprise, that flite has about the same voice quality as festival, but
is much better than festival when it comes to system resources.

Like I said, this is the setup that works for me, and you are free to
modify the script if you don't like the way I did things.

Greg


On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:40:32AM -0700, Sean M McMahon wrote:
> I thought to reduce choppiness you raised the priority of speech 
> dispatcher and lowered the priority of speechd-up.  Does your solution 
> work better?  Feel free to explain.
> 
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