Speech Dispatcher and Cepstral

[Steve Holmes]

What proc/speakup parameter is used for Voice? is it tone? When I list
the proc/speakup directory, there's no voice value present.  If tone
does it, I wouldn't need to do anything with speechd-up but maybe
document something some place.

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:24:06PM -0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> For speechd-up you can change the voice by changing the speakup voice, 
> FEMALE1 I think is voice 3.
> 
> From
> Michael Whapples
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Speech Dispatcher and Cepstral
> 
> 
> > Thanks for the additional suggestions.  Actually, I did the "Major hack"
> > as a tempererary measure while I figure things out.  Yes, the progocol
> > logging test reveals that speechd-up is setting the voice explicitly to
> > to "MALE1" so there's my answer:).  I think speechd-up is small enough
> > that I can get in there and possibly add another command line option
> > that would allow users to specify on the fly and if left blank, use
> > whatever speech-dispatcher is defaulting to.  This should be easy enough
> > a fix.  I'll have to figure out how to change the default in speechd-el
> > and perhaps modify that one too to not hard code any default.  Like you
> > say, let speech-dispatcher do the defaulting.
> >
> > Thanks again for the tips and direction.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 07:56:23AM +0100, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> >> Steve Holmes wrote:
> >> > Oh, you mean these programs may be using SSML to specify the default
> >> > voice?
> >>
> >> Not really SSML, just regular Speech Dispatcher commands, but that
> >> should not matter, of course...
> >>
> >> To solve your problem right now, you have two options:
> >>
> >>   * configure both speechd-up and speechd-el to use FEMALE1 as the
> >>     default voice
> >>   * configure the cepstral module to use Callie as MALE1
> >>
> >> The later is a nasty hack, of course!
> >>
> >> The ideal solution would be to request an enhancement in both pieces of
> >> software to respect Speech Dispatchers default voice setting.
> >>
> >> Best regards, Tomas.
> >>
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