* Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available
@ Hynek Hanke
` Hart Larry
` Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available ace
0 siblings, 2 replies; 17+ messages in thread
From: Hynek Hanke @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1
=========================================
The Brailcom organization is happy to announce the availability of
Speech Dispatcher 0.5-rc1 developed as a part of the Free(b)Soft
project.
This is a Release Candidate version, so we invite everyone to help
us testing it before we finally release the 0.5 version.
* What is Speech Dispatcher?
Speech Dispatcher is a device independent layer for speech
synthesis, developed with the goal of making the usage of speech
synthesis easier for application programmers. It takes care of most
of the tasks necessary to solve in speech enabled applications. What
is a very high level GUI library to graphics, Speech Dispatcher is
to speech synthesis.
The architecture of Speech Dispatcher is based on a proven
client/server model. The basic means of client communication
with Speech Dispatcher is through a TCP connection using the Speech
Synthesis Interface Protocol (SSIP).
Key Speech Dispatcher features are:
- Message priority model that allows multiple simultaneous
connections to Speech Dispatcher from one or more clients
and tries to provide the user with the most important messages.
- Different output modules that talk to different synthesizers
so that the programmer doesn't need to care which particular
synthesizer is being used. Currently Festival, Flite, Epos and
(non-free) Dectalk software are supported.
- Client-based configuration allows users to configure different
settings for different clients that connect to Speech Dispatcher.
- Simple interface for programs written in C, C++ provided through a
shared library, Common Lisp and Guile interface. The
Python interface is being worked on. An Elisp library is
developed as a sperate project speechd-el. Possibly an interface
to any other language can be developed.
* What is new in 0.5-rc1?
- SSIP now supports SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) messages.
- Communication with Festival is highly improved.
- Improved DTK Software Synthesis support.
NOTE: The communication mode of the Festival output module (SSML mode)
is incompatible with the previous festival-freebsoft-utils releases.
You need to install festival-freebsoft-utils 0.3 or higher!
* Where to get it?
You can get the distribution tarball of the released version from
http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/speech-dispatcher-0.5-rc1.tar.gz
You also need to get festival-freebsoft-utils in version 0.3 or newer
http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/festival-freebsoft-utils/
We recommend you to fetch the sound icons Speech Dispatcher can use as
well. They are available at
http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/sound-icons/sound-icons-0.1.tar.gz
Corresponding Debian packages will be available at your
Debian distribution mirror as soon as the official version 0.5 is released.
(We would highly appreciate any help with RPM distribution!)
The home page of the project is http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd
* How to report bugs?
Please report bugs at <speechd@bugs.freebsoft.org>. For other
contact please use <speechd@freebsoft.org>
Happy synthesizing!
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread* Re: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available Hynek Hanke @ ` Hart Larry ` Hynek Hanke ` Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available ace 1 sibling, 1 reply; 17+ messages in thread From: Hart Larry @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Hey Hynek: You say this project supports non-free Dectalk, but would I have a chance of running it with a decpc internal? Thanks so much in advance Hart ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
* Re: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available ` Hart Larry @ ` Hynek Hanke ` Hart Larry 0 siblings, 1 reply; 17+ messages in thread From: Hynek Hanke @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:38:28AM -0700, Hart Larry wrote: > Hey Hynek: You say this project supports non-free Dectalk, but would I > have a chance of running it with a decpc internal? The current output module for DecTalk Software doesn't work with the hardware Dectalk PC internal. Maybe you can still make it to work in a simple way. Does the internal Decatalk have some simple line client like the DecTalk's `say'? Btw. Did you try Festival already? It supports much more features. With Regards, Hynek ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
* Re: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available ` Hynek Hanke @ ` Hart Larry ` What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available) Hynek Hanke 0 siblings, 1 reply; 17+ messages in thread From: Hart Larry @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Well, Hynek, so far the only speech I am really happy with are dectalk and eliquence--thanks Hart ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
* What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available) ` Hart Larry @ ` Hynek Hanke ` What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 ReleaseCandidate " Glenn Ervin at Home 0 siblings, 1 reply; 17+ messages in thread From: Hynek Hanke @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:25:25AM -0700, Hart Larry wrote: > Well, Hynek, so far the only speech I am really happy with are dectalk and > eliquence--thanks What's the problem with Festival? I mean, what should Festival do better so that you could use it instead of Dectalk or Eloquence? Or the other hardware synthesizers. Of course, this is also a question for others. Regards, Hynek ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
* Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 ReleaseCandidate 1 available) ` What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available) Hynek Hanke @ ` Glenn Ervin at Home ` What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5ReleaseCandidate " Joseph C. Lininger 0 siblings, 1 reply; 17+ messages in thread From: Glenn Ervin at Home @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. As far as hardware synths, I am not comfortable using a computer without a hardware synth. Even if for some reason I might prefer the software synth, we can only rely on a hardware synth if we are going to do any tweaking to our system which might effect the audio output. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke@volny.cz> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:51 AM Subject: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 ReleaseCandidate 1 available) On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:25:25AM -0700, Hart Larry wrote: > Well, Hynek, so far the only speech I am really happy with are dectalk and > eliquence--thanks What's the problem with Festival? I mean, what should Festival do better so that you could use it instead of Dectalk or Eloquence? Or the other hardware synthesizers. Of course, this is also a question for others. Regards, Hynek _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
* Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) ` What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 ReleaseCandidate " Glenn Ervin at Home @ ` Joseph C. Lininger ` ace 0 siblings, 1 reply; 17+ messages in thread From: Joseph C. Lininger @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Glenn Ervin at Home, Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The big thing festival needs to do better is pronunciation. The entonations in particular and some word pronunciations are not good. - --- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm@pcdesk.net note, the following is used for automated processing. Please leave in tact if quoting me in a reply. Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:32 AM Subject: Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) > As far as hardware synths, I am not comfortable using a computer without a > hardware synth. Even if for some reason I might prefer the software > synth, > we can only rely on a hardware synth if we are going to do any tweaking to > our system which might effect the audio output. > Glenn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke@volny.cz> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:51 AM > Subject: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 > ReleaseCandidate 1 available) > > > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:25:25AM -0700, Hart Larry wrote: >> Well, Hynek, so far the only speech I am really happy with are dectalk >> and >> eliquence--thanks > > What's the problem with Festival? I mean, what should Festival do better > so that you could use it instead of Dectalk or Eloquence? Or the other > hardware synthesizers. > > Of course, this is also a question for others. > > Regards, > Hynek > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQOd6uSenap9Jqj2wEQL3JQCdHVc4w3qBXhXP082x0uhkD7GJBXAAoLvD lKvt1SDfRJG4CGTUIxl21Twf =nzhY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
* Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) ` What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5ReleaseCandidate " Joseph C. Lininger @ ` ace ` Igor Gueths 0 siblings, 1 reply; 17+ messages in thread From: ace @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. I just heard a wav file of Festival's voice. IT sounds OK; it's understandable, but could use some inflection. At 08:34 PM 7/3/04, you wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >The big thing festival needs to do better is pronunciation. The >entonations in particular and some word pronunciations are not good. >- --- >Joseph C. Lininger >jbahm@pcdesk.net >note, the following is used for automated processing. Please leave in tact >if quoting me in a reply. >Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 >- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" ><GlennErvin@cableone.net> >To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> >Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:32 AM >Subject: Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher >0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) > > >>As far as hardware synths, I am not comfortable using a computer without a >>hardware synth. Even if for some reason I might prefer the software synth, >>we can only rely on a hardware synth if we are going to do any tweaking to >>our system which might effect the audio output. >>Glenn >> >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke@volny.cz> >>To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> >>Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:51 AM >>Subject: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 >>ReleaseCandidate 1 available) >> >> >>On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:25:25AM -0700, Hart Larry wrote: >>>Well, Hynek, so far the only speech I am really happy with are dectalk and >>>eliquence--thanks >> >>What's the problem with Festival? I mean, what should Festival do better >>so that you could use it instead of Dectalk or Eloquence? Or the other >>hardware synthesizers. >> >>Of course, this is also a question for others. >> >>Regards, >>Hynek >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Speakup mailing list >>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Speakup mailing list >>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: PGP 8.0.3 > >iQA/AwUBQOd6uSenap9Jqj2wEQL3JQCdHVc4w3qBXhXP082x0uhkD7GJBXAAoLvD >lKvt1SDfRJG4CGTUIxl21Twf >=nzhY >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Robby ace@tundra-com.net Network Administrator - irc.talkingirc.com http://www.talkingirc.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
* Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) ` ace @ ` Igor Gueths ` ace 0 siblings, 1 reply; 17+ messages in thread From: Igor Gueths @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey Ace, what you may be looking for is the software Dectalk. On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:23:22AM -0700, ace wrote: > I just heard a wav file of Festival's voice. IT sounds OK; it's > understandable, but could use some inflection. > > At 08:34 PM 7/3/04, you wrote: > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >The big thing festival needs to do better is pronunciation. The > >entonations in particular and some word pronunciations are not good. > >- --- > >Joseph C. Lininger > >jbahm@pcdesk.net > >note, the following is used for automated processing. Please leave in tact > >if quoting me in a reply. > >Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 > >- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" > ><GlennErvin@cableone.net> > >To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > >Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:32 AM > >Subject: Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher > >0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) > > > > > >>As far as hardware synths, I am not comfortable using a computer without a > >>hardware synth. Even if for some reason I might prefer the software > >>synth, > >>we can only rely on a hardware synth if we are going to do any tweaking to > >>our system which might effect the audio output. > >>Glenn > >> > >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke@volny.cz> > >>To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > >><speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > >>Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:51 AM > >>Subject: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 > >>ReleaseCandidate 1 available) > >> > >> > >>On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:25:25AM -0700, Hart Larry wrote: > >>>Well, Hynek, so far the only speech I am really happy with are dectalk > >>>and > >>>eliquence--thanks > >> > >>What's the problem with Festival? I mean, what should Festival do better > >>so that you could use it instead of Dectalk or Eloquence? Or the other > >>hardware synthesizers. > >> > >>Of course, this is also a question for others. > >> > >>Regards, > >>Hynek > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Speakup mailing list > >>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Speakup mailing list > >>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >Version: PGP 8.0.3 > > > >iQA/AwUBQOd6uSenap9Jqj2wEQL3JQCdHVc4w3qBXhXP082x0uhkD7GJBXAAoLvD > >lKvt1SDfRJG4CGTUIxl21Twf > >=nzhY > >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Robby > ace@tundra-com.net > Network Administrator - > irc.talkingirc.com > http://www.talkingirc.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA6CmLNohoaf1zXJMRAjXWAJ0Zq1Mtl7H2Nb55+23S6d/MOJd2YwCfX8Sz Il+iFqW1kFXyVI8+ebPyQzU= =dLl7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
* Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) ` Igor Gueths @ ` ace ` Gregory Nowak ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 17+ messages in thread From: ace @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Is it possible to use a software DECTalk under Linux? At 09:00 AM 7/4/04, you wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Hey Ace, what you may be looking for is the software Dectalk. >On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:23:22AM -0700, ace wrote: > > I just heard a wav file of Festival's voice. IT sounds OK; it's > > understandable, but could use some inflection. > > > > At 08:34 PM 7/3/04, you wrote: > > > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > >Hash: SHA1 > > > > > >The big thing festival needs to do better is pronunciation. The > > >entonations in particular and some word pronunciations are not good. > > >- --- > > >Joseph C. Lininger > > >jbahm@pcdesk.net > > >note, the following is used for automated processing. Please leave in > tact > > >if quoting me in a reply. > > >Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 > > >- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" > > ><GlennErvin@cableone.net> > > >To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > > >Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:32 AM > > >Subject: Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher > > >0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) > > > > > > > > >>As far as hardware synths, I am not comfortable using a computer > without a > > >>hardware synth. Even if for some reason I might prefer the software > > >>synth, > > >>we can only rely on a hardware synth if we are going to do any > tweaking to > > >>our system which might effect the audio output. > > >>Glenn > > >> > > >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke@volny.cz> > > >>To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > > >><speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > > >>Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:51 AM > > >>Subject: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 > > >>ReleaseCandidate 1 available) > > >> > > >> > > >>On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:25:25AM -0700, Hart Larry wrote: > > >>>Well, Hynek, so far the only speech I am really happy with are dectalk > > >>>and > > >>>eliquence--thanks > > >> > > >>What's the problem with Festival? I mean, what should Festival do better > > >>so that you could use it instead of Dectalk or Eloquence? Or the other > > >>hardware synthesizers. > > >> > > >>Of course, this is also a question for others. > > >> > > >>Regards, > > >>Hynek > > >> > > >>_______________________________________________ > > >>Speakup mailing list > > >>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >> > > >> > > >>_______________________________________________ > > >>Speakup mailing list > > >>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >Version: PGP 8.0.3 > > > > > >iQA/AwUBQOd6uSenap9Jqj2wEQL3JQCdHVc4w3qBXhXP082x0uhkD7GJBXAAoLvD > > >lKvt1SDfRJG4CGTUIxl21Twf > > >=nzhY > > >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Speakup mailing list > > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > Robby > > ace@tundra-com.net > > Network Administrator - > > irc.talkingirc.com > > http://www.talkingirc.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >- -- >Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFA6CmLNohoaf1zXJMRAjXWAJ0Zq1Mtl7H2Nb55+23S6d/MOJd2YwCfX8Sz >Il+iFqW1kFXyVI8+ebPyQzU= >=dLl7 >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Robby ace@tundra-com.net Network Administrator - irc.talkingirc.com http://www.talkingirc.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
* Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) ` ace @ ` Gregory Nowak ` ace ` Igor Gueths ` Alex Snow 2 siblings, 1 reply; 17+ messages in thread From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sure, if you're willing to pay out $50 for it, which isn't a bad price. Greg On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:17:36PM -0700, ace wrote: > Is it possible to use a software DECTalk under Linux? > - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA6EMD7s9z/XlyUyARAnb6AKCO3RwDFek6KXWKscVGbERKfpPV8wCeMgT3 eGOuHvNUupi+QjiFhGUffgw= =+LeL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
* Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) ` Gregory Nowak @ ` ace ` Alex Snow 0 siblings, 1 reply; 17+ messages in thread From: ace @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. No, it's not a bad price. Where might there be info about it? At 10:48 AM 7/4/04, you wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Sure, if you're willing to pay out $50 for it, which isn't a bad >price. > >Greg > > >On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:17:36PM -0700, ace wrote: > > Is it possible to use a software DECTalk under Linux? > > > >- -- >Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFA6EMD7s9z/XlyUyARAnb6AKCO3RwDFek6KXWKscVGbERKfpPV8wCeMgT3 >eGOuHvNUupi+QjiFhGUffgw= >=+LeL >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Robby ace@tundra-com.net Network Administrator - irc.talkingirc.com http://www.talkingirc.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
* Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) ` ace @ ` Alex Snow 0 siblings, 0 replies; 17+ messages in thread From: Alex Snow @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 compared to the hardware dectalk, yeah that's a good price. I'm waiting for a good free speach engine for linux...or festival to get improved whatever comes first. the main place I'd use software speach would be with gnome but having a few of my boxes run yasr or something wouldn't hurt. at least I wouldnt have to drag my external synth around all the time. On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 04:08:58PM -0700, ace wrote: > No, it's not a bad price. Where might there be info about it? > > > At 10:48 AM 7/4/04, you wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Sure, if you're willing to pay out $50 for it, which isn't a bad > >price. > > > >Greg > > > > > >On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:17:36PM -0700, ace wrote: > >> Is it possible to use a software DECTalk under Linux? > >> > > > >- -- > >Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org > > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > > >iD8DBQFA6EMD7s9z/XlyUyARAnb6AKCO3RwDFek6KXWKscVGbERKfpPV8wCeMgT3 > >eGOuHvNUupi+QjiFhGUffgw= > >=+LeL > >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > Robby > ace@tundra-com.net > Network Administrator - > irc.talkingirc.com > http://www.talkingirc.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- Windows without the X is like making love without a partner. Sex, Drugs & Linux Rules win-nt from the people who invented edlin. Apples have meant trouble since eden. Linux, the way to get rid of boot viruses -- MaDsen Wikholm, mwikholm@at8.abo.fi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA6G6D9XVrM3ri110RAjhCAJwIvxfJQs6DyDRqXYUCOlyEea7/HACdE3pw 4XY4upAd/FPf1Z1+kN8MmrU= =+8PC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
* Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) ` ace ` Gregory Nowak @ ` Igor Gueths ` Alex Snow 2 siblings, 0 replies; 17+ messages in thread From: Igor Gueths @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes. Only problem is you have to buy it from Fonix. On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:17:36PM -0700, ace wrote: > Is it possible to use a software DECTalk under Linux? > > At 09:00 AM 7/4/04, you wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Hey Ace, what you may be looking for is the software Dectalk. > >On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:23:22AM -0700, ace wrote: > >> I just heard a wav file of Festival's voice. IT sounds OK; it's > >> understandable, but could use some inflection. > >> > >> At 08:34 PM 7/3/04, you wrote: > >> > >> >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> >Hash: SHA1 > >> > > >> >The big thing festival needs to do better is pronunciation. The > >> >entonations in particular and some word pronunciations are not good. > >> >- --- > >> >Joseph C. Lininger > >> >jbahm@pcdesk.net > >> >note, the following is used for automated processing. Please leave in > >tact > >> >if quoting me in a reply. > >> >Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 > >> >- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" > >> ><GlennErvin@cableone.net> > >> >To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > ><speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > >> >Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:32 AM > >> >Subject: Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher > >> >0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) > >> > > >> > > >> >>As far as hardware synths, I am not comfortable using a computer > >without a > >> >>hardware synth. Even if for some reason I might prefer the software > >> >>synth, > >> >>we can only rely on a hardware synth if we are going to do any > >tweaking to > >> >>our system which might effect the audio output. > >> >>Glenn > >> >> > >> >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke@volny.cz> > >> >>To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > >> >><speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > >> >>Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:51 AM > >> >>Subject: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 > >> >>ReleaseCandidate 1 available) > >> >> > >> >> > >> >>On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:25:25AM -0700, Hart Larry wrote: > >> >>>Well, Hynek, so far the only speech I am really happy with are dectalk > >> >>>and > >> >>>eliquence--thanks > >> >> > >> >>What's the problem with Festival? I mean, what should Festival do > >better > >> >>so that you could use it instead of Dectalk or Eloquence? Or the other > >> >>hardware synthesizers. > >> >> > >> >>Of course, this is also a question for others. > >> >> > >> >>Regards, > >> >>Hynek > >> >> > >> >>_______________________________________________ > >> >>Speakup mailing list > >> >>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> >> > >> >> > >> >>_______________________________________________ > >> >>Speakup mailing list > >> >>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >> >Version: PGP 8.0.3 > >> > > >> >iQA/AwUBQOd6uSenap9Jqj2wEQL3JQCdHVc4w3qBXhXP082x0uhkD7GJBXAAoLvD > >> >lKvt1SDfRJG4CGTUIxl21Twf > >> >=nzhY > >> >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >> > > >> > > >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >Speakup mailing list > >> >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > > >> > >> Robby > >> ace@tundra-com.net > >> Network Administrator - > >> irc.talkingirc.com > >> http://www.talkingirc.com > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > >- -- > >Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > > >iD8DBQFA6CmLNohoaf1zXJMRAjXWAJ0Zq1Mtl7H2Nb55+23S6d/MOJd2YwCfX8Sz > >Il+iFqW1kFXyVI8+ebPyQzU= > >=dLl7 > >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > Robby > ace@tundra-com.net > Network Administrator - > irc.talkingirc.com > http://www.talkingirc.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA6EM5Nohoaf1zXJMRAhP1AJ9Z+Ouosh6Gujgb40wc8JIk5WuXMwCgkLaJ vDFr32axON4VNi8jr01nDg8= =Mbqc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
* Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) ` ace ` Gregory Nowak ` Igor Gueths @ ` Alex Snow 2 siblings, 0 replies; 17+ messages in thread From: Alex Snow @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 yes. software dectalk is supported by gnome-speach. I'm not sure what other apps you can use it with...maybe emacspeak? yasr? speakup? On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:17:36PM -0700, ace wrote: > Is it possible to use a software DECTalk under Linux? > > At 09:00 AM 7/4/04, you wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Hey Ace, what you may be looking for is the software Dectalk. > >On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:23:22AM -0700, ace wrote: > >> I just heard a wav file of Festival's voice. IT sounds OK; it's > >> understandable, but could use some inflection. > >> > >> At 08:34 PM 7/3/04, you wrote: > >> > >> >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> >Hash: SHA1 > >> > > >> >The big thing festival needs to do better is pronunciation. The > >> >entonations in particular and some word pronunciations are not good. > >> >- --- > >> >Joseph C. Lininger > >> >jbahm@pcdesk.net > >> >note, the following is used for automated processing. Please leave in > >tact > >> >if quoting me in a reply. > >> >Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 > >> >- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" > >> ><GlennErvin@cableone.net> > >> >To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > ><speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > >> >Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:32 AM > >> >Subject: Re: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher > >> >0.5ReleaseCandidate 1 available) > >> > > >> > > >> >>As far as hardware synths, I am not comfortable using a computer > >without a > >> >>hardware synth. Even if for some reason I might prefer the software > >> >>synth, > >> >>we can only rely on a hardware synth if we are going to do any > >tweaking to > >> >>our system which might effect the audio output. > >> >>Glenn > >> >> > >> >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke@volny.cz> > >> >>To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > >> >><speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > >> >>Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:51 AM > >> >>Subject: What should Festival do better? (was: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 > >> >>ReleaseCandidate 1 available) > >> >> > >> >> > >> >>On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:25:25AM -0700, Hart Larry wrote: > >> >>>Well, Hynek, so far the only speech I am really happy with are dectalk > >> >>>and > >> >>>eliquence--thanks > >> >> > >> >>What's the problem with Festival? I mean, what should Festival do > >better > >> >>so that you could use it instead of Dectalk or Eloquence? Or the other > >> >>hardware synthesizers. > >> >> > >> >>Of course, this is also a question for others. > >> >> > >> >>Regards, > >> >>Hynek > >> >> > >> >>_______________________________________________ > >> >>Speakup mailing list > >> >>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> >> > >> >> > >> >>_______________________________________________ > >> >>Speakup mailing list > >> >>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >> >Version: PGP 8.0.3 > >> > > >> >iQA/AwUBQOd6uSenap9Jqj2wEQL3JQCdHVc4w3qBXhXP082x0uhkD7GJBXAAoLvD > >> >lKvt1SDfRJG4CGTUIxl21Twf > >> >=nzhY > >> >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >> > > >> > > >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >Speakup mailing list > >> >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > > >> > >> Robby > >> ace@tundra-com.net > >> Network Administrator - > >> irc.talkingirc.com > >> http://www.talkingirc.com > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > >- -- > >Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > > >iD8DBQFA6CmLNohoaf1zXJMRAjXWAJ0Zq1Mtl7H2Nb55+23S6d/MOJd2YwCfX8Sz > >Il+iFqW1kFXyVI8+ebPyQzU= > >=dLl7 > >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > Robby > ace@tundra-com.net > Network Administrator - > irc.talkingirc.com > http://www.talkingirc.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- One of the things that hamper Linux's climb to world domination is the shortage of bad Computer Role Playing Games, or CRaPGs. No operating system can be considered respectable without one. -- Brian O'Donnell, odonnllb@tcd.ie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA6FvL9XVrM3ri110RAhP2AJsEEk3AUMJVWzZF+OoXzwPg1WW5+gCeMJ2d GYSPrbSxoRJqSxtwLsDXJxw= =JV0y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
* Re: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available Hynek Hanke ` Hart Larry @ ` ace ` Hynek Hanke 1 sibling, 1 reply; 17+ messages in thread From: ace @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. OK, so, if I'm understanding this correctly, Speech Dispatcher is the Linux alternative of the Windows SAPI? At 04:09 AM 7/2/04, you wrote: >Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 >========================================= > >The Brailcom organization is happy to announce the availability of >Speech Dispatcher 0.5-rc1 developed as a part of the Free(b)Soft >project. > >This is a Release Candidate version, so we invite everyone to help >us testing it before we finally release the 0.5 version. > >* What is Speech Dispatcher? > > Speech Dispatcher is a device independent layer for speech > synthesis, developed with the goal of making the usage of speech > synthesis easier for application programmers. It takes care of most > of the tasks necessary to solve in speech enabled applications. What > is a very high level GUI library to graphics, Speech Dispatcher is > to speech synthesis. > > The architecture of Speech Dispatcher is based on a proven > client/server model. The basic means of client communication > with Speech Dispatcher is through a TCP connection using the Speech > Synthesis Interface Protocol (SSIP). > > Key Speech Dispatcher features are: > > - Message priority model that allows multiple simultaneous > connections to Speech Dispatcher from one or more clients > and tries to provide the user with the most important messages. > > - Different output modules that talk to different synthesizers > so that the programmer doesn't need to care which particular > synthesizer is being used. Currently Festival, Flite, Epos and > (non-free) Dectalk software are supported. > > - Client-based configuration allows users to configure different > settings for different clients that connect to Speech Dispatcher. > > - Simple interface for programs written in C, C++ provided through a > shared library, Common Lisp and Guile interface. The > Python interface is being worked on. An Elisp library is > developed as a sperate project speechd-el. Possibly an interface > to any other language can be developed. > >* What is new in 0.5-rc1? > > - SSIP now supports SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) messages. > > - Communication with Festival is highly improved. > > - Improved DTK Software Synthesis support. > > NOTE: The communication mode of the Festival output module (SSML mode) > is incompatible with the previous festival-freebsoft-utils releases. > You need to install festival-freebsoft-utils 0.3 or higher! > >* Where to get it? > > You can get the distribution tarball of the released version from > >http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/speech-dispatcher-0.5-rc1.tar.gz > > You also need to get festival-freebsoft-utils in version 0.3 or newer > http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/festival-freebsoft-utils/ > > We recommend you to fetch the sound icons Speech Dispatcher can use as > well. They are available at > http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/sound-icons/sound-icons-0.1.tar.gz > > Corresponding Debian packages will be available at your > Debian distribution mirror as soon as the official version 0.5 is released. > (We would highly appreciate any help with RPM distribution!) > > The home page of the project is http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd > >* How to report bugs? > > Please report bugs at <speechd@bugs.freebsoft.org>. For other > contact please use <speechd@freebsoft.org> > > >Happy synthesizing! > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Robby ace@tundra-com.net Network Administrator - irc.talkingirc.com http://www.talkingirc.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
* Re: Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available ` Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available ace @ ` Hynek Hanke 0 siblings, 0 replies; 17+ messages in thread From: Hynek Hanke @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 12:01:49PM -0700, ace wrote: > OK, so, if I'm understanding this correctly, Speech Dispatcher is the Linux > alternative of the Windows SAPI? I don't know what is the Windows SAPI since I don't use Windows. But if the acronym means Speech Application Interface, Speech Dispatcher is something like that. Please read the documentation to further understand the motives for developing it and the problems it solves. Regards, Hynek ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 17+ messages in thread
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