Re: A Second Festival Module for Speakup

["Jacob Schmude" <jacobs@surferie.net>]

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Hi
I've actually got this module working. Compiled and ran just fine. Just one problem though: I can't shut it up! Is silencing speech one of the things that 
wasn't implemented yet? Because if it is that should be the first thing to get working, only thing worse than a computer that won't talk is one that talks too 
much. Also, I've noticed a long delay, probably about 1 second, between each word spoken and am hearing things like "pitch_string" in between 
keystrokes, and before reading starts. Is this normal for the current state of the module, or have I missed a step in installation? Hey, it talks, that's more than 
what it did before. Progress, right? I'll still use yasr with eflite until the speakup module can learn to shut up, though the voice quality is nowhere what I get 
when I link festival and mbrola together. Keep working on it, guys.

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:51:20 -0500 (EST), Owen Patrick Smith wrote:

>Hello All,

>As some of you are aware myself a two other students have been working on
>getting Festival and Speakup to talk to one another for a while.  At this
>point we have a beta version of our code working.  Everything should work
>fine but the installation process needs streamlining and there are some
>features which are not yet implemented.  For some basic information about
>our project see http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux to get the code directly just
>go to http://www.wpi.edu/~blinux/speakup-modifications.tar.gz but be sure
>to read the installation instructions at
>http://www.wpi.edu/~blinux/installation_instructions.txt before you
>attempt to install.

>To help with our project please fill out a brief survey at
>http://www.wpi.edu/~ender3rd/cgi-bin/survey/survey.html

>Please reply with any comments, questions or bug reports.



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