From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from apollo.csir.co.za ([146.64.10.99]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FTDJf-0002QX-00 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:29:36 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([146.64.19.125]) by apollo.csir.co.za (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3B7TOhf019527 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:29:24 +0200 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3B7RkSf005036 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:27:46 +0200 Received: from localhost (wvdwalt@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id k3B7RkJt005027 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:27:46 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: wvdwalt owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:27:46 +0200 (SAST) From: Willem van der Walt X-X-Sender: wvdwalt@localhost.localdomain To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Espeaks Software Synth In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-CSIR-MailScanner-Information: Please contact sys-admin at csir dot co dot za for more information X-CSIR-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: wvdwalt@csir.co.za 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:29:36 -0000 On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Michael Whapples wrote: > 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). Speech-dispatcher can cut up the text that goes to the synth. I have actually done what i have suggested with another software synth and had no problems. The idea of using the aplayer program is that one can then use alsa. > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright, terms and conditions and e-mail legal notice. Views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the CSIR. CSIR E-mail Legal Notice http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_eMail_Legal_Notice.html CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_Copyright.html For electronic copies of the CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions and the CSIR Legal Notice send a blank message with REQUEST LEGAL in the subject line to HelpDesk@csir.co.za. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.