message from "Jonathan Horniblow (Talking Newspaper Services)" <jonat...@talking-newspapers.co.uk> to festival-talk = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = According to http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/#S3.2.4
"The pitch contour is defined as a set of white space-separated targets at specified time positions in the speech output. The algorithm for interpolating between the targets is processor-specific. In each pair of the form (time position,target), the first value is a percentage of the period of the contained text (a number followed by "%") and the second value is the value of the pitch attribute (a number followed by "Hz", a relative change, or a label value). Time position values outside 0% to 100% are ignored. If a pitch value is not defined for 0% or 100% then the nearest pitch target is copied. All relative values for the pitch are relative to the pitch value just before the contained text." eg: <prosody contour="(0%,+20Hz) (10%,+30%) (40%,+10Hz)"> good morning </prosody> Wow! What could be simpler and more fun? Only pulling one's own toenails out, it seems. Festival and most other TTS seem to be able to handle prosody pitch curves. For festival, it's something like .. http://cvs.freebsoft.org/doc/festival-freebsoft-utils/festival-freebsoft-utils_23.html This looks like the kind of thing that could benefit from something like being able to literally draw prosodic contour lines onto words or sentences which really needed fine tweaking. It sounds like the sort of thing that could be done with jquery and html5, but I tend to have this habit for googling for an already invented wheel, not finding it, spending 3 wheels learning a new wheelmaking craft, only to have someone come along saying "dude, just use this ready-built hovercraft templace" (or something). Crap analogy, I know, but if anyone DOES know a less painstaking way of easily figuring out prosody pitch curves, then please let me know and I'd be very grateful. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = University of Edinburgh's Festival Speech Synthesis System = = http://festvox.org/festival Sent Via festival-t...@festvox.org = = To unsubscribe mail majord...@festvox.org = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Festlang-talk mailing list Festlang-talk@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/festlang-talk
