A version of Speakup... for your cell phone?

[Gregory Nowak]

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My main concern was not espeak, since I know that has a small
footprint, another thing that makes it a great software synth. I was
thinking more in terms of the RAM used by
speech-dispatcher/speechd-up, and festival for example, (which
someone, somewhere might want to use instead of espeak for some weird
reason). While by themselves speech-dispatcher and speechd-up might
not seem like much, if you put that concern in the context of all the
other applications that people run today on their PDA cell phones,
every single k-byte counts.

As I've stated in my previous post though, if you eliminate
speech-dispatcher/speechd-up, and use something like espeak, it does
seem doable.

Greg


On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 02:06:25AM +0100, Jonathan Duddington wrote:
> I did a test on Linux, with the command:
>    speak -w test.wav -f longTextFile
> 
> This showed the speak process's memory usage as:
>   VmSize:  3.4 MByte  (total amount of virtual memory). 
>   VmRss:   1.5 MByte  (total amount of physical memory).
> 
> I'm not sure why it's using virtual memory, but these figures seem
> modest by today's standards.
> 
> Using the portaudio interface increases the VmSize to 28 MByte.
> 
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