speakup using different synths with software speech?

[Georgina Joyce]

Hi

I respect that you wish to use a GUI.  I'm not saying you should do this
or that.  I'm just asking that you accept that there are different ways
that different people do things.  By asking how other people do
something like audio editing might broaden your options.  But by stating
that the commandline doesn't cut it, needs to be based upon fact.
Soundgrab is a perl script and probably not supported now.  But it suits
my needs to 4 decimal places of a second is more than enough for me.

head   refers to the player head.  Think in terms of a cassette
               player.  The head has a position in the volume, and may
               be stopped or playing (or browsing).  Playing stops
               automaticly when the head reaches the end of the volume.

        mark   refers to a marker which you can place on the volume
using
               the mark command.  The mark is placed at the position of
               the head at the instant you issue the mark command.  Only
               one mark can exist on the volume at a time.

Once you have a mark on the volume, you use the name command to give
the audio data between the mark and the head position a name.  The
head can be before the mark if that is convenient.  When you have
named all the sections you are interested in saving to files, you use
the export command to do the actual saving.

The browse command lets you automaticly skip through the contents of
the volume (great for channel flippers :).

All commands can be used at any time, whether the volume is being
played or browsed, or is stopped.

Commands may be abbreviated to uniqueness.  Multiple commands
seperated by semicolons may be placed on the same command line.
On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 04:37 -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Actually, I like sox very much and I use it a lot for basic editing 
> tasks.  I also generally prefer the command line.  My first talking 
> computer was an Apple II+ with an Echo and a very old version of 
> Textalker, so I can relate to poor speech quality.  However, the 
> computer industry has progressed far beyond that point, even with 
> hardware speech.  There's really no reason to use very low quality 
> speech synthesizers anymore.  Note: I am not saying that ESpeak is very 
> low quality.  It is better than the Echo, but I'm not sure how much 
> better.  Part of the problem is that I am not in the UK and am not used 
> to British voices.  It doesn't mispronounce things too badly and it does 
> have a fairly low resource overhead.  With that said, I still don't see 
> any reason why I should give up my expensive hardware synthesizers and 
> why I should be forced into using non-free software speech.
> 
> Regarding audio editing, I'm not familiar with soundgrab.  I'll look at 
> it.  I do like sox, but it isn't good for very precise editing tasks.  
> The command line is great, but when you're dealing with a very small 
> amount of audio, such as 0.5 seconds, the command line just doesn't cut 
> it.  I recently put together a presentation with music and clips from 
> different audio files.  Sox did a great job, but there was a noticable 
> lag between files.  I had to create a script with the commands to play 
> each clip and it was obvious to me when one ended and the next started.  
> With something like Sound Forge, it would've been one smooth 
> presentation with no gaps and no lag between clips.  I admit that I'm 
> not a sox wizard and there are probably workarounds that I don't know 
> about, but it took me much longer to get the command parameters exactly 
> right since I couldn't easily cut and paste what I wanted.  It worked 
> out well enough in the end though.
> 
> Georgina Joyce wrote:
> > Well here my LTLK works well on this debian lenny system with speakup.
> > I've no interest in using it with orca because I quite like espeak.
> > Because my first experience with a talking computere was with HAL and
> > the Apollo 1 synth and espeak is considerably better than that to my
> > ears.  However, I wanted to point out that quite a bit can be done via
> > the console in respect of audio editing.  Perhaps soundgrab and sox
> > doesn't attract you but they're a very powerful combination.  But I
> > accept that I'm happier on the commandline where as others are better
> > with a GUI.  
> >   
> 
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