From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bay103-dav15.bay103.hotmail.com ([65.54.174.87] helo=hotmail.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FSyeh-0004II-00 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:50:19 -0400 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:49:56 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 80.1.72.245 by BAY103-DAV15.phx.gbl with DAV; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:49:56 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [80.1.72.245] X-Originating-Email: [mikster4@msn.com] X-Sender: mikster4@msn.com Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Michael Whapples To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Espeaks Software Synth Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:49:53 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Apr 2006 15:49:56.0981 (UTC) FILETIME=[6AA79A50:01C65CB6] X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:50:19 -0000 I think William's suggestion of getting espeak to produce a temporary wave file and getting another program to play that might give better results on some systems. On my laptop the conf file I posted earlier gives me no problems on my laptop (except that it uses oss instead of alsa), but on my desktop that conf file seems to not allow silencing (and when using my Terratec DMX6fire card (ICE1712 driver), I also get very poor response) but by making the change to have another app to play the sound these problems disappear on my desktop. Also I guess it would be possible to get it to use alsa with that output system. My only concern with that is, with large amounts of text, you may get poor response as espeak will have to process all the text before the wave file is ready (I don't know if speech-dispatcher seperates large text into smaller chunks). also if you want to give espeak a different accent, you supposedly can, have a look at some of the docs about voices, dictionaries, etc, I think you are stuck with the voice itself though, as they haven't released the voice creation tools. There has been a little mention about it on the espeak forum. From Michael Whapples