From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fed1rmmtao12.cox.net ([68.230.241.27]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DECOi-0008LV-00 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:24:12 -0500 Received: from lnx2.holmesgrown.com ([68.98.98.68]) by fed1rmmtao12.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050323202323.YKFS13819.fed1rmmtao12.cox.net@lnx2.holmesgrown.com> for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:23:23 -0500 Received: from lnx3.holmesgrown.com ([192.168.1.5] ident=mail) by lnx2.holmesgrown.com with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1DECNs-0004g3-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:23:20 -0700 Received: from steve by lnx3.holmesgrown.com with local (Exim 4.20) id 1DECNy-0001t2-4M for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:23:26 -0700 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:23:26 -0700 From: Steve Holmes To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20050323202324.GB7120@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <001f01c52f20$ef7bbcd0$77ac7682@azwaterDOM.wr.usgs.gov> <20050322215513.GE8184@rednote.net> <20050322220228.GA13869@luke-laptop.yelavich.home> <20050322221500.GF8184@rednote.net> <20050323160025.GD26578@blackbox> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050323160025.GD26578@blackbox> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: "Steve Holmes,,," Subject: Re: Making flite more responsive and improving its pronounciation X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:24:17 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Can you explain these parms a bit? Curious minds want to know. How did you come by the particular numeric values you did? One other observation I'm noticing with DECtalk; When speech-dispatcher first says "Software synth found," the DEC is at something like Double pitch or some such. I have to set a lower pitch to get the voice to sound right for the rest of the session. I'm running Slackware 10.1 with the default compiler gcc 3.3.4. This sounds like a problem reported back with earlier versions of Redhat if I recall. Any ideas about the high pitch deal? Thanks. On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:00:25AM -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. > > I'm using DECtalk e. It was a free upgrade from version 4. You might > want to try it and see if it fixes your problem. > > I did impro8e the speech by adding additional palameters to my say > commands. > I added > > [:dv ri 90 sm 0][:pe -380][:ra 350][:dv ap 130] > > Hope this helps. > Kenny > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:15:00PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > > Hi, Luke: > > > > I've tried both flite and DEC Talk 4. I haven't bought 5 and don't plan > > to. Response is the same. The speech is extremely choppy so that I'm > > only comfortable hearing it while reviewing the screen. > > > > Last year I had a Thinkpad T30 which was much better. So, I don't > > understand where the breakdown is. > > > > Luke Yelavich writes: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:55:13AM EST, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > > May I say that I am unhappy with the lack of responsivness using > > > > software speech with Speakup on a 1.13 Ghz machine? So, I can barely > > > > grok a Pentium 90. > > > > > > Is that with flite/festival? As I am using DecTalk 5 on a > > > ThinkPad R50, 1.4Ghz and it is very responsive. > > > - -- > > > Luke > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCQdA8WSjv55S0LfERA/fDAJ45hmGHQoQDkdG4tDmzs4+Qi05mFQCg8bU1 zQgoSPvIURQNXe3Zznj7VVE= =mK8D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----