IBMTTS on slackware

[Nick Stockton]

I think I described it rong, damn dyslexia *grin*.
What I ment is that it sounded sped up sort of like a tape player that is 
sped up or when you raze the sampling rate of a recording in an audio 
editor.
I think the technical term would be "that alven and the chipmunks sound." 
*giggle*.
It would speak like that for a sec or two then it would stop speaking.
This was only when I modified it to use aoss for OSS emulation in alsa.
after changing it back to the way it was before it didn't have that problem.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples at aim.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: IBMTTS on slackware


> On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 20:46 -0400, Nick Stockton wrote:
>> *nods* I remember trying that but it didn't seem to work.
>> it was making the sound start out speaking a few words very fast then it
>> would freez and not speak at all.
> Speaking fast in gnome-speech might be due to the fact that gnome-speech
> seems to be able to reach much higher speeds than speech-dispatcher does
> (on my system I need to set speech-dispatcher to full (99) in orca to
> achieve what seems nearly fast enough where as whith gnome-speech I am
> dropping it down to about 60 (although I may speech it up once I have
> tuned it a bit better for pitch and such like)).
>> I kind of wonder if it was because I have my USB sound card set to output
>> 44,100HZ in /etc/asound.comf and viavoice would be using 22,000HZ.
> What was the rate of speech when using gnome-speech's test application
> (test-speech)? If this seemed the fairly standard slow default speed
> applications normally set then sample rate conversion is probably
> occurring. It's quite common for alsa to resample for you, any device
> you set up as plug or to use dmix will automatically resample for you.
>> When ever I get a faster computer I'll probbely try running gnome-speech
>> again but at the momentgnome speech is not very responcive on my computer
>> and speech-dispatcher is quite a bit more responcive.
>> I kind of wonder what is causing it to spell some words but not others
>> though... Very strange.
>>From what I can tell, the following causes speech-dispatcher (when using
> orca, when using speechd-up I think I got slightly different results):
> If the word contains non-alphabetic characters (eg.
> speakup-request at braille.uwo.ca gets some parts spelt)
> If something has capitals in the midst of it (eg. java variable names or
> method names, although the method names will have non-alphabetic
> characters after it))
>
> Those above rules probably could be improved upon to be more specific
> but it's a starting point. Some words get spelt by gnome-speech, but
> this is less frequent and I am still working when this occurs. I don't
> remember espeak doing this so much so I don't think it's in the main
> speech-dispatcher code just the ibmtts module or ibmtts itself.
>
> Michael Whapples
>
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