eSpeak tip

[Alastair Irving]

Having installed the cvs version of speech dispatcher, there is a
definite deteriation in the responsiveness of espeak.  I have eventually
reverted to the espeak.conf file that Michael originally sent to the
list.  This is far more responsive since the text is spoken imediately
rather than saved as a wav.  

It appears that aplay always takes a short period of time to load, and
doesn't get killed imediately.  What is the advantage of saving to wav
1st?


Alastair Irving
e-mail (and MSN): alastairirving19 at hotmail.com
 


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Michael Whapples
Sent: 14 May 2006 17:38
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: eSpeak tip


When you say it won't go fast enough, do you mean that the words per
minute 
is not great enough? If so, you could change the conversions in the 
speech-dispatcher espeak conf file, espeak uses words per minute for its

speed.

Does play use alsa? I found that that alsa and speech-dispatcher doesn't

always stop the speech immediately, I even found a delay in stopping 
festival with speech-dispatcher when using alsa. I'm not sure it was
quite 
as much as one second, but enough that it would still be speaking the
last 
phrase whilst starting to start speak the next (e.g. when using screen 
review keys in speakup moving from line to line, without waiting for
things 
to finish, not present with oss as two sounds cannot play at the same
time). 
It might be something to do with alsa, anyone know?

From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler Spivey" <tspivey at pcdesk.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 8:24 PM
Subject: eSpeak tip


> I've found that if you change aplay to play in espeak-generic.conf, 
> atleast for me with grml, it gets rid of the one-second pause when 
> killing aplay. I like it so far, but it just can't go fast enough.
>
>
>
> 

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