* Linux speech w/o special hardware @ Jack Heim ` Prasad Chaturvedula 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Jack Heim @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: blinux-list Has anyone downloaded IBM's Viavoice Outload lately? I downloaded it last summer but now I can't find it on their web site. I'm wondering if it might have been withdrawn. So then I started poking around on the University of Wisconsin's Trace Center web site. It mentions something called Festival from the University of Edinburgh. I was wondering if anyone had gotten that working on standard hardware, a PC with a sound card. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware Linux speech w/o special hardware Jack Heim @ ` Prasad Chaturvedula ` Jack Heim 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Prasad Chaturvedula @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: blinux-list I have not got it working on a linux box yet, but i have seen it work. It is good. I think you have binaries for it for linux. Prasad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:32 PM Subject: Linux speech w/o special hardware > Has anyone downloaded IBM's Viavoice Outload lately? I downloaded it last > summer but now I can't find it on their web site. I'm wondering if it might > have been withdrawn. > > So then I started poking around on the University of Wisconsin's Trace > Center web site. It mentions something called Festival from the University > of Edinburgh. I was wondering if anyone had gotten that working on standard > hardware, a PC with a sound card. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware ` Prasad Chaturvedula @ ` Jack Heim ` Janina Sajka ` (3 more replies) 0 siblings, 4 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Jack Heim @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: blinux-list I'm unclear on which of the two packages you're talking about. Have you seen Festival or Viavoice work? I spent a couple of hours last night searching google & google groups for info on getting Festival working with emacspeak. I didn't really find anything helpful and the few pages I did find tended to indicate there's a piece missing. Apparently some intermediate piece you need between emacspeak & Festival hasn't been developed yet. But most of what I found was so vague I couldn't really tell. I certainly did not find anything where someone said straight out that they use a linux machine with emacspeak & Festival. My problem is that I need a laptop and I can't figure out how I'm going to get speech working. It seems to me that dragging along an external synth would defeat the purpose. At 06:03 PM 3/22/02 +0530, you wrote: >I have not got it working on a linux box yet, but i have seen it work. It is >good. I think you have binaries for it for linux. > >Prasad > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu> >To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> >Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:32 PM >Subject: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > > > Has anyone downloaded IBM's Viavoice Outload lately? I downloaded it last > > summer but now I can't find it on their web site. I'm wondering if it >might > > have been withdrawn. > > > > So then I started poking around on the University of Wisconsin's Trace > > Center web site. It mentions something called Festival from the University > > of Edinburgh. I was wondering if anyone had gotten that working on >standard > > hardware, a PC with a sound card. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > >_______________________________________________ >Blinux-list mailing list >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware ` Jack Heim @ ` Janina Sajka ` Kenny Hitt ` (2 subsequent siblings) 3 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: blinux-list [-- Attachment #1: Type: TEXT/PLAIN, Size: 2955 bytes --] The attached web page will put you on the path of getting ViaVoice. It's the better solution right now, because installing it and getting it working with emacspeak is relatively easy and pretty well documented. On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Jack Heim wrote: > I'm unclear on which of the two packages you're talking about. Have you > seen Festival or Viavoice work? > > I spent a couple of hours last night searching google & google groups for > info on getting Festival working with emacspeak. I didn't really find > anything helpful and the few pages I did find tended to indicate there's a > piece missing. Apparently some intermediate piece you need between > emacspeak & Festival hasn't been developed yet. But most of what I found > was so vague I couldn't really tell. > > I certainly did not find anything where someone said straight out that they > use a linux machine with emacspeak & Festival. > > My problem is that I need a laptop and I can't figure out how I'm going to > get speech working. It seems to me that dragging along an external synth > would defeat the purpose. > > > > At 06:03 PM 3/22/02 +0530, you wrote: > >I have not got it working on a linux box yet, but i have seen it work. It is > >good. I think you have binaries for it for linux. > > > >Prasad > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu> > >To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> > >Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:32 PM > >Subject: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > > > > > > Has anyone downloaded IBM's Viavoice Outload lately? I downloaded it last > > > summer but now I can't find it on their web site. I'm wondering if it > >might > > > have been withdrawn. > > > > > > So then I started poking around on the University of Wisconsin's Trace > > > Center web site. It mentions something called Festival from the University > > > of Edinburgh. I was wondering if anyone had gotten that working on > >standard > > > hardware, a PC with a sound card. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > >_________________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list mailing list > >Blinux-list@redhat.com > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org [-- Attachment #2: Type: TEXT/PLAIN, Size: 10636 bytes --] <!-- X-URL: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/dev/ttssdk_linux.html#navskip --> <!-- Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 06:42:14 GMT --> <BASE HREF="http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/dev/ttssdk_linux.html#navskip"> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>IBM ViaVoice TTS SDK for Linux</TITLE> <META name="generator" content="SWG ProdInfo - PI 3.8"> <META name="abstract" content="ViaVoice TTS SDK for Linux"> <META name="description" content=""> <META name="keywords" content="ViaVoice, TTS, Outloud, Speech, Speech Synthesis, Developer, programmer, application developer,software developer, SDK, Tools, Toolkit"> <META name="owner" content=""> <META name="update" content="19991216"> <META name="review" content="20000413"> <META name="security" content="Public"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" marginheight="2" marginwidth="2" topmargin="2" leftmargin="2" alink="#6699CC" vlink="#996699" link="#006699"> <p>ViaVoice text-to-speech (TTS) technology uses the latest in linguistic technologies to synthesize speech. 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* Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware ` Jack Heim ` Janina Sajka @ ` Kenny Hitt ` Mario Lang ` Prasad Chaturvedula ` Mario Lang 3 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Kenny Hitt @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: blinux-list Hi. You might want to check out the archives for this list. I saw a message a few weeks ago from someone who had a speech server for emacspeak with Festival. Kenny On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:14:40AM -0600, Jack Heim wrote: > I'm unclear on which of the two packages you're talking about. Have you > seen Festival or Viavoice work? > > I spent a couple of hours last night searching google & google groups for > info on getting Festival working with emacspeak. I didn't really find > anything helpful and the few pages I did find tended to indicate there's a > piece missing. Apparently some intermediate piece you need between > emacspeak & Festival hasn't been developed yet. But most of what I found > was so vague I couldn't really tell. > > I certainly did not find anything where someone said straight out that they > use a linux machine with emacspeak & Festival. > > My problem is that I need a laptop and I can't figure out how I'm going to > get speech working. It seems to me that dragging along an external synth > would defeat the purpose. > > > > At 06:03 PM 3/22/02 +0530, you wrote: > >I have not got it working on a linux box yet, but i have seen it work. It > >is > >good. I think you have binaries for it for linux. > > > >Prasad > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu> > >To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> > >Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:32 PM > >Subject: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > > > > >> Has anyone downloaded IBM's Viavoice Outload lately? I downloaded it last > >> summer but now I can't find it on their web site. I'm wondering if it > >might > >> have been withdrawn. > >> > >> So then I started poking around on the University of Wisconsin's Trace > >> Center web site. It mentions something called Festival from the > >University > >> of Edinburgh. I was wondering if anyone had gotten that working on > >standard > >> hardware, a PC with a sound card. > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Blinux-list mailing list > >> Blinux-list@redhat.com > >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > >_________________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list mailing list > >Blinux-list@redhat.com > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware ` Kenny Hitt @ ` Mario Lang 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Mario Lang @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: blinux-list Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt@yahoo.com> writes: > Hi. You might want to check out the archives for this list. I saw a > message a few weeks ago from someone who had a speech server for > emacspeak with Festival. Wrong. The announced speech server was eflite, and that is a speech server for Emacspeak and Flite. Note that Festival and Flite are not the same. -- CYa, Mario ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware ` Jack Heim ` Janina Sajka ` Kenny Hitt @ ` Prasad Chaturvedula ` Janina Sajka ` Mario Lang 3 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Prasad Chaturvedula @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: blinux-list What I saw was someone who installed the Festival binaries on Linux and was tinkering aound with it. Not Festival with Emacspeak. There is a Speech server for Festival to work wth emacspeak. This is the missing piece you are talking about. You need to get this and then you can use Festival as the speech engine with emacspeak. Yes, there was a message reg. this , I think by the author of that speech server. Check out the archives. Prasad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:44 PM Subject: Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware > I'm unclear on which of the two packages you're talking about. Have you > seen Festival or Viavoice work? > > I spent a couple of hours last night searching google & google groups for > info on getting Festival working with emacspeak. I didn't really find > anything helpful and the few pages I did find tended to indicate there's a > piece missing. Apparently some intermediate piece you need between > emacspeak & Festival hasn't been developed yet. But most of what I found > was so vague I couldn't really tell. > > I certainly did not find anything where someone said straight out that they > use a linux machine with emacspeak & Festival. > > My problem is that I need a laptop and I can't figure out how I'm going to > get speech working. It seems to me that dragging along an external synth > would defeat the purpose. > > > > At 06:03 PM 3/22/02 +0530, you wrote: > >I have not got it working on a linux box yet, but i have seen it work. It is > >good. I think you have binaries for it for linux. > > > >Prasad > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu> > >To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> > >Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:32 PM > >Subject: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > > > > > > Has anyone downloaded IBM's Viavoice Outload lately? I downloaded it last > > > summer but now I can't find it on their web site. I'm wondering if it > >might > > > have been withdrawn. > > > > > > So then I started poking around on the University of Wisconsin's Trace > > > Center web site. It mentions something called Festival from the University > > > of Edinburgh. I was wondering if anyone had gotten that working on > >standard > > > hardware, a PC with a sound card. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > >_________________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list mailing list > >Blinux-list@redhat.com > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware ` Prasad Chaturvedula @ ` Janina Sajka ` Prasad Chaturvedula 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: blinux-list Perhaps you're thinking of flite alias festival lite? It's not the same thing. On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Prasad Chaturvedula wrote: > What I saw was someone who installed the Festival binaries on Linux and was > tinkering aound with it. Not Festival with Emacspeak. > There is a Speech server for Festival to work wth emacspeak. This is the > missing piece you are talking about. You need to get this and then you can > use Festival as the speech engine with emacspeak. Yes, there was a message > reg. this , I think by the author of that speech server. Check out the > archives. > > Prasad > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu> > To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:44 PM > Subject: Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > > > I'm unclear on which of the two packages you're talking about. Have you > > seen Festival or Viavoice work? > > > > I spent a couple of hours last night searching google & google groups for > > info on getting Festival working with emacspeak. I didn't really find > > anything helpful and the few pages I did find tended to indicate there's a > > piece missing. Apparently some intermediate piece you need between > > emacspeak & Festival hasn't been developed yet. But most of what I found > > was so vague I couldn't really tell. > > > > I certainly did not find anything where someone said straight out that > they > > use a linux machine with emacspeak & Festival. > > > > My problem is that I need a laptop and I can't figure out how I'm going to > > get speech working. It seems to me that dragging along an external synth > > would defeat the purpose. > > > > > > > > At 06:03 PM 3/22/02 +0530, you wrote: > > >I have not got it working on a linux box yet, but i have seen it work. It > is > > >good. I think you have binaries for it for linux. > > > > > >Prasad > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > >From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu> > > >To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> > > >Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:32 PM > > >Subject: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > > > > > > > > > Has anyone downloaded IBM's Viavoice Outload lately? I downloaded it > last > > > > summer but now I can't find it on their web site. I'm wondering if it > > >might > > > > have been withdrawn. > > > > > > > > So then I started poking around on the University of Wisconsin's Trace > > > > Center web site. It mentions something called Festival from the > University > > > > of Edinburgh. I was wondering if anyone had gotten that working on > > >standard > > > > hardware, a PC with a sound card. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________ > > >Do You Yahoo!? > > >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Blinux-list mailing list > > >Blinux-list@redhat.com > > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware ` Janina Sajka @ ` Prasad Chaturvedula ` Janina Sajka 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Prasad Chaturvedula @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: blinux-list I am sorry, it is for flite and not for Festival. Prasad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@afb.net> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 9:27 PM Subject: Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > Perhaps you're thinking of flite alias festival lite? It's not the same > thing. > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Prasad Chaturvedula wrote: > > > What I saw was someone who installed the Festival binaries on Linux and was > > tinkering aound with it. Not Festival with Emacspeak. > > There is a Speech server for Festival to work wth emacspeak. This is the > > missing piece you are talking about. You need to get this and then you can > > use Festival as the speech engine with emacspeak. Yes, there was a message > > reg. this , I think by the author of that speech server. Check out the > > archives. > > > > Prasad > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu> > > To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> > > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:44 PM > > Subject: Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > > > > > > I'm unclear on which of the two packages you're talking about. Have you > > > seen Festival or Viavoice work? > > > > > > I spent a couple of hours last night searching google & google groups for > > > info on getting Festival working with emacspeak. I didn't really find > > > anything helpful and the few pages I did find tended to indicate there's a > > > piece missing. Apparently some intermediate piece you need between > > > emacspeak & Festival hasn't been developed yet. But most of what I found > > > was so vague I couldn't really tell. > > > > > > I certainly did not find anything where someone said straight out that > > they > > > use a linux machine with emacspeak & Festival. > > > > > > My problem is that I need a laptop and I can't figure out how I'm going to > > > get speech working. It seems to me that dragging along an external synth > > > would defeat the purpose. > > > > > > > > > > > > At 06:03 PM 3/22/02 +0530, you wrote: > > > >I have not got it working on a linux box yet, but i have seen it work. It > > is > > > >good. I think you have binaries for it for linux. > > > > > > > >Prasad > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > > >From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu> > > > >To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> > > > >Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:32 PM > > > >Subject: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > > > > > > > > > > > > Has anyone downloaded IBM's Viavoice Outload lately? I downloaded it > > last > > > > > summer but now I can't find it on their web site. I'm wondering if it > > > >might > > > > > have been withdrawn. > > > > > > > > > > So then I started poking around on the University of Wisconsin's Trace > > > > > Center web site. It mentions something called Festival from the > > University > > > > > of Edinburgh. I was wondering if anyone had gotten that working on > > > >standard > > > > > hardware, a PC with a sound card. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________ > > > >Do You Yahoo!? > > > >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Blinux-list mailing list > > > >Blinux-list@redhat.com > > > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware ` Prasad Chaturvedula @ ` Janina Sajka ` James R. Van Zandt 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: blinux-list You might want to check the blinux archive. I don't recall precisely, though this was definitely on the list a week or two ago. First, though be sure you can actually get flite working. Do a search on google for flite to find the place to download the source from and compile it. If that's successful, it will make sense to take the next steps. If it isn't, it won't make any difference. On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Prasad Chaturvedula wrote: > I am sorry, it is for flite and not for Festival. > > Prasad > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@afb.net> > To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 9:27 PM > Subject: Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > > > > > Perhaps you're thinking of flite alias festival lite? It's not the same > > thing. > > > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Prasad Chaturvedula wrote: > > > > > What I saw was someone who installed the Festival binaries on Linux and > was > > > tinkering aound with it. Not Festival with Emacspeak. > > > There is a Speech server for Festival to work wth emacspeak. This is > the > > > missing piece you are talking about. You need to get this and then you > can > > > use Festival as the speech engine with emacspeak. Yes, there was a > message > > > reg. this , I think by the author of that speech server. Check out the > > > archives. > > > > > > Prasad > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu> > > > To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> > > > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:44 PM > > > Subject: Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > > > > > > > > > I'm unclear on which of the two packages you're talking about. Have > you > > > > seen Festival or Viavoice work? > > > > > > > > I spent a couple of hours last night searching google & google groups > for > > > > info on getting Festival working with emacspeak. I didn't really find > > > > anything helpful and the few pages I did find tended to indicate > there's a > > > > piece missing. Apparently some intermediate piece you need between > > > > emacspeak & Festival hasn't been developed yet. But most of what I > found > > > > was so vague I couldn't really tell. > > > > > > > > I certainly did not find anything where someone said straight out that > > > they > > > > use a linux machine with emacspeak & Festival. > > > > > > > > My problem is that I need a laptop and I can't figure out how I'm > going to > > > > get speech working. It seems to me that dragging along an external > synth > > > > would defeat the purpose. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > At 06:03 PM 3/22/02 +0530, you wrote: > > > > >I have not got it working on a linux box yet, but i have seen it > work. It > > > is > > > > >good. I think you have binaries for it for linux. > > > > > > > > > >Prasad > > > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > > > >From: "Jack Heim" <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu> > > > > >To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> > > > > >Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:32 PM > > > > >Subject: Linux speech w/o special hardware > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Has anyone downloaded IBM's Viavoice Outload lately? I downloaded > it > > > last > > > > > > summer but now I can't find it on their web site. I'm wondering if > it > > > > >might > > > > > > have been withdrawn. > > > > > > > > > > > > So then I started poking around on the University of Wisconsin's > Trace > > > > > > Center web site. It mentions something called Festival from the > > > University > > > > > > of Edinburgh. I was wondering if anyone had gotten that working on > > > > >standard > > > > > > hardware, a PC with a sound card. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > > > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________ > > > > >Do You Yahoo!? > > > > >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > > >Blinux-list mailing list > > > > >Blinux-list@redhat.com > > > > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > Technology Research and Development > > Governmental Relations Group > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > > Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > > http://www.openebook.org > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware ` Janina Sajka @ ` James R. Van Zandt 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: James R. Van Zandt @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: blinux-list In my archives, I found these two messages on emacspeak servers for Festival. - Jim Van Zandt >From blinux-list@redhat.com Tue Nov 10 20:09:14 1998 Return-Path: <blinux-list@redhat.com> Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:;@ MBOX-Line: From blinux-list-request@redhat.com Tue Nov 10 04:29:19 1998 X-Sender: brsmart@pop.mindspring.com Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 05:17:19 -0500 To: blinux-list@redhat.com From: Bryan Smart <bsmart@pobox.com> Subject: Re: speech daemon for linux? In-Reply-To: <3647F625.463D05BD@usa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Resent-From: blinux-list@redhat.com Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailing-List: <blinux-list@redhat.com> archive/latest/121 X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: blinux-list-request@redhat.com I am also disappointed in the current state of software synthesis. Programs like Festival and Mbrola produce some of the most realistic sounding speech that I've heard from a computer. They are, however, too slow and slugish to be useful to users of programs like Emacspeak. I've been trying to get *some* kind of software synth to be usable enough with Emacspeak to where I could stop lugging my DecTalk along with my laptop, but have had little luck. Bart's Mbrola server is reasonably responsive, but Mbrola has many problems that cause it to hang on certain phraises. Other problems with his server cause seemingly random core dumps. Further, the Mbrola voice does not seem to be as responsive as the DecTalk. I wrote a server that used the Festival speech system, and, while that one was considerably more stable than Bart's server, the Festival system is far slower than Mbrola. No chance of zippping along with Festival as you might with your DecTalk. Lastly, I have hacked together a server that uses Rsynth. Rsynth is older and takes far less CPU power than either of the two systems already mentioned. Rsynth is still far from perfect. The code could work far better than it does. It inserts long pauses between words and pads the output (both of these detract from its speed). I've been working to streamline Rsynth in the hopes that it can perform at least as well as one of the 80's hardware synths. I will keep the list posted. I am disappointed that more oldschool code is not available on this topic. The old Echo II I used on my Apple IIe back in 1985 was a simple piece of hardware that was both responsive and understandable (after a time). The circuitry on the card could not have been complicated (street price was $130 back then), and I wonder why more software modeling of these earlier synths has not been done. Does anyone know of such code? With out a software DecTalk for Linux and only high-end diphone synthesizers available, we may be in for a long wait with regards to usable software synthesis. Bryan -- Bryan R. Smart Home Phone: 843-953-2721 System Administrator DCS Mobal: 843-814-7627 Department of Computer Science E-Mail: bsmart@pobox.com The College of Charleston Home Page: http://www.pobox.com/~bsmart --- Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com with subject line: unsubscribe >From emacspeak-request@cs.vassar.edu Thu Feb 10 22:03:08 2000 MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by WEMI 1.13.7 - "Shimada") Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 15:08:32 +0100 Resent-from: emacspeak@cs.vassar.edu From: Mario Lang <mlang@home.delysid.org> Subject: Mapping DECtalk commandset to SABLE Resent-sender: emacspeak-request@cs.vassar.edu To: emacspeak@cs.vassar.edu Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: list Old-Return-Path: <mlang@home.delysid.org> User-Agent: WEMI/1.13.7 (Shimada) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) Emacs/20.5 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) X-Mailing-List: <emacspeak@cs.vassar.edu> archive/latest/1106 X-Loop: emacspeak@cs.vassar.edu Hello. As some off you probably know, I am in the process of writing a Emacspeak Server for Festival. I am currently multithreading the whole thing to be able to eliminate commands which wouldn't get spoken (sch as fast scrolling with many q d s q d s q d s series)... When this is finished (I hope soon, its quite a brainer for me), the next step will be the voice-lock mode. I plan to convert the strings emacspeak sends to the speech server to a SABLE-mark-up text for Festival. First of all, is this the right way? Or does anyone think that implementing the SABLE commands in a festival-voices.el would be better? Ok, if q1 is no, than I seek for help: I'd like to talk with someone how to map the DECtalk commandset with all his parameters to apropriate SABLE commands and their parameters. This can only be well done from the ground up. I am absolutly not familiar with DECtalk and dont know what those many parameters (the numbers) mean. Didnt find any good specs anyway.. Something to think about: SABLE supports: <SPEAKER></SPEAKER>, <RATE></RATE>, <SAYAS></SAYAS>, <AUDIO SRC/> Thats the main commands to map to. The speech rate has to be in the range of 1 to 99%. Speakers are speaker names. SAYAS can be used for pronounciation and so on. AUDIO SRC can be used to include Wavforms directly into the spoken text. Just got another question: Does anyone know how to reconfigure Emacspeak so that it dosent use the play program for Auditory Icons. It should use the a and p commands and send Auditory Icons to the Speech server. This would eliminates the "two-soundcards" problem. And the last question mainly to raman: Are you planning to implement a pronounce-word command for the speech servers? When I tell Emacspeak to read the characters of a word it would send: l {x} l {y} l {z} and so on. My speech server would send the following to festival: (tts "<SABLE><SAYAS MODE="literal">x</SAYAS> </SABLE>" 'sable) (tts "<SABLE><SAYAS MODE="literal">y</SAYAS> </SABLE>" 'sable) (tts "<SABLE><SAYAS MODE="literal">z</SAYAS> </SABLE>" 'sable) But if Emacspeak would send a special command for speaking literals of a word, I could convert to: (tts "<SABLE><SAYAS MODE="literal">xyz</SAYAS> </SABLE>" 'sable) which would recude overhead alot. Regards, Mario Lang <lang@zid.tu-graz.ac.at> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or change your address send mail to "emacspeak-request@cs.vassar.edu" with a subject of "unsubscribe" or "help" ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: Linux speech w/o special hardware ` Jack Heim ` (2 preceding siblings ...) ` Prasad Chaturvedula @ ` Mario Lang 3 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Mario Lang @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: blinux-list Jack Heim <jheim@facstaff.wisc.edu> writes: ViaVoice with Emacspeak is the best choice for now. Only available for i386. Flite and emacspeak work too (i386 and ARM). But flite has the disadvantage that it only works for one voice type right now. ViaVoice for instance can provide more different voices, and that makes voice-lock-mode in Emacspeak alot more fun :). My advice is, try to get viavoice running. It delivers the best quality right now, and apart from being non-commercially free only, its very good. I am still wondering why IBM doesn't release different languuuages. The API allows for german, spanish and so on, but its now 3 or 4 years and they did only release english version for Linux. I guess that IBM in really just bought the eloquence engine, thats what libeci indicates to me. And eloquence is good. It would be extremely nice if IBM would release some other languages too. About festival: The reason why you found only vague things is that Festival is simply not the right thing to use. Its a academic tool, and its not the fastest. About 2 years ago I tried to write a speech server for Emacspeak+Festival in perl. It more or less worked at some point, but I realized that its simply to slow and therefore unusable... -- CYa, Mario ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
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