make of flite stuck on kal 8k

make of flite stuck on kal 8k

[krishnakant Mane]

hello all,
has any one found problems building flite 1.3 on fedora core 4?
I tried it yesterday and all went well untill make tried to build the
files for kal 8k voice.  it can't go any further.  I have a 128 mb ram
with 8 gb hdd space and amd duron based machine.
the make of flite gives this problem and the prompt never returned (I
waited for 2 hours ).  actually this problem has confused me because
it is not throwing any error either!
just gets stuck on the line that says that it is doing the build of
kal 8k (can't remember exactly what is the line but all those gcc
lines u know?)
I had previously posted a thread regarding static voice with my vibra
128 sound kard which is still unsolved.
actually it seams my card is being taken by alsa as sb16 bit.
don't know how to get around this too!
it is now becoming very urgent so please help.
thanks.
Krishnakant.

Re: make of flite stuck on kal 8k

[Tyler Spivey]

With 128 mb of ram, that compile is going to drag for several hours. How
much swap space do you have?
When I tried to compile flite with 256 mb of ram, my box ran out of
memory.

Re: make of flite stuck on kal 8k

[krishnakant Mane]

well,
128 mb ram and 256 swap space.
how to work around this?
Krishnakant.

Re: make of flite stuck on kal 8k

[Lukas Loehrer]

Hi,

In my experience, you will need at least 512MB of physical memory to
compile flite in a reasonable amount of time. You can increase your
swap space to say 1GB, but because you only have 20 % of the physical
memory required, you will see terrible thrashing because a locality of
reference in a compiler like gcc is probably rather low. I tried to
compile flite once on a 256MV machine with 1GB swap space and stopped
the process after a few hours.

Flite 1.2 sounds better than flite 1.3 in my opinion. They managed to
decrease memory usage significantly in 1.3 but the price is some
decrease in voice quality I think. So, if you do not use it in a kind
of embedded device, I would recommend going with flite 1.2. Why can't
you use a precompiled package?

Best regards, Lukas

krishnakant Mane writes ("make of flite stuck on kal 8k"):
> hello all,
> has any one found problems building flite 1.3 on fedora core 4?
> I tried it yesterday and all went well untill make tried to build the
> files for kal 8k voice.  it can't go any further.  I have a 128 mb ram
> with 8 gb hdd space and amd duron based machine.
> the make of flite gives this problem and the prompt never returned (I
> waited for 2 hours ).  actually this problem has confused me because
> it is not throwing any error either!
> just gets stuck on the line that says that it is doing the build of
> kal 8k (can't remember exactly what is the line but all those gcc
> lines u know?)
> I had previously posted a thread regarding static voice with my vibra
> 128 sound kard which is still unsolved.
> actually it seams my card is being taken by alsa as sb16 bit.
> don't know how to get around this too!
> it is now becoming very urgent so please help.
> thanks.
> Krishnakant.
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Re: make of flite stuck on kal 8k

[krishnakant Mane]

hi lukas,
well I am going to switch to slackware 10.2 with 2.6.13 kernel and I
think they use alsa 1.0.9 drivers.
will flite 1.2 have any problems with it?  I also want to use yasr
with the same machine.
well if you know any binary packages available for slackware please
let me know.  I searched on google but did not find.  may be my search
went wrong.
any ways I have one more question.
since this issue is related to flite, may I also ask which is the best
voice around which I can use with flite?  my point of view of choosing
the voice is one which is exceptable and can be clear.  I might
compromise on inflection but I will certainly expect clearity.
can you suggest me one very good and exceptable voice I can use with
flite 1.2 and yasr?
thanks a lot for your help,
Krishnakant.

Re: make of flite stuck on kal 8k

[Lukas Loehrer]

Hi krishnakant,

krishnakant Mane writes ("Re: make of flite stuck on kal 8k"):
> well I am going to switch to slackware 10.2 with 2.6.13 kernel and I
> think they use alsa 1.0.9 drivers.
> will flite 1.2 have any problems with it?  I also want to use yasr
> with the same machine.

If you want to use flite with yasr, you will also need eflite. If you
want to use Alsa for sound playback, you may consider the version of
flite and eflite I modified to support Alsa natively, available from:

http://homepage.hispeed.ch/loehrer/flite_alsa.html

There is a binary of eflite available on that page, that is statically
linked against flite 1.2, so you could try that without having to
build flite yourself. I have only tested it on Debian and I know it
works on some versions of Fedora, but I have no experience with
Slackware.
 
> can you suggest me one very good and exceptable voice I can use with
> flite 1.2 and yasr?

Flite is short for "festival lite", so you get only one voice. My
earlier point was that the voice that comes with flite 1.2 sounds more
pleasant to me than the one that comes with flite 1.3. In both 1.2 and
1.3, You can choose between a 8k and a 16k version of the kal voice,
you will of course choose the 16k version. If you want other voices,
you will have to go with festival or another TTS.

hth, Lukas

Re: make of flite stuck on kal 8k

[Levi Campbell]

Hi, I'd strongly recommend you increase your swap space to a minimum of 500 
MB. I don't know how to do that or I'd walk you through the process.
> hello all,
> has any one found problems building flite 1.3 on fedora core 4?
> I tried it yesterday and all went well untill make tried to build the
> files for kal 8k voice.  it can't go any further.  I have a 128 mb ram
> with 8 gb hdd space and amd duron based machine.
> the make of flite gives this problem and the prompt never returned (I
> waited for 2 hours ).  actually this problem has confused me because
> it is not throwing any error either!
> just gets stuck on the line that says that it is doing the build of
> kal 8k (can't remember exactly what is the line but all those gcc
> lines u know?)
> I had previously posted a thread regarding static voice with my vibra
> 128 sound kard which is still unsolved.
> actually it seams my card is being taken by alsa as sb16 bit.
> don't know how to get around this too!
> it is now becoming very urgent so please help.
> thanks.
> Krishnakant.

Re: make of flite stuck on kal 8k

[krishnakant Mane]

hi,
even I never needed to increase the swap space,
so I don't know the method.
can some one guide?
Krishnakant.