today flite and dectalk, tomorrow the world

today flite and dectalk, tomorrow the world

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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I am elated. I have had a chronic failure to be able to compile
festival and speech-tools on this Slackware 9.1 system for a long
time, but today decided, after all the talk here, to try the
dectalk RT with speechd-up and speech-dispatcher. That last
requires flite, and my apprechensions about compiling it were
evidently groundless. It just finished compiling in about ten
minutes, and it works! It sounds shitty, but it works.

I kept an eye on memory usage while it was compiling, and during
a portion of the compile it was using all but about 32K of my
256M of ram, plus about 90% of my 256M swap space. I gather it
was converting voice files from Festival from that unique format
into standard C code, a very ambitious compile task. But it
worked, and I now have two speech engines functional.

As I said, tomorrow the world.

Chuck


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speechd-up, almost there

[Stephen Clower]

Hello again folks,
  I've gotten speech-dispatcher and speechd-up installed and configured, but I've hit one minor snag; Speech-dispatcher is unable to open either the Flite or Dectalk for speech output. The Emacspeak servers for both modules appear to work so I'm a bit stumped here.

Stephen Clower, that guy from the south.
You can reach me by any of the following:
E-Mail: steve@steve-audio.net
MSN: steve@steve-audio.net
AIM: AudioRabbit03

You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting http://www.steve-audio.net

Re: speechd-up, almost there

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
Do you get any errors? What exactly happens? If you're trying to use
dectalk, you need to rename the say program that came with it to dtk-say.
You may, depending on which speech-dispatcher version you installed, have
to reinstall your dectalk software to get your say program back, since
speech dispatcher used to install a program called say, and it overwrited
the dectalk's program--this was the reason for the renaming.

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Stephen Clower wrote:

> Hello again folks,
>   I've gotten speech-dispatcher and speechd-up installed and configured, but I've hit one minor snag; Speech-dispatcher is unable to open either the Flite or Dectalk for speech output. The Emacspeak servers for both modules appear to work so I'm a bit stumped here.
>
> Stephen Clower, that guy from the south.
> You can reach me by any of the following:
> E-Mail: steve@steve-audio.net
> MSN: steve@steve-audio.net
> AIM: AudioRabbit03
>
> You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting http://www.steve-audio.net
>
>
>
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