Yes, I've downloaded and compiled the CSLU toolkit. However, a while back, I upgraded Festival and had a lot of trouble getting the CSLU toolkit to compile. After much back and forth with Esther Klabbers there, I got it working, but the voices never sounded quite the same again. Worse, I found that I couldn't switch back and forth from the Oregon voices to the Festival voices without crashing the system.
This was problematic, because the story line of some of my skits was that ked diphone was falling in love with tll diphone.
I keep hoping somebody will produce a nice neat RPM package for all this stuff. By the way, are you the guy who does the chatbots? I think that stuff is really cool. I think the whole area of speech is exciting, and there are a thousand different directions to take it. For example, I've been wondering about creating a cell phone based service that would allow people to remotely monitor various systems. Sort of an extension to balancing your checkbook by interactiing with a voice system.
Ted
On 8/10/05, Graeme Mulvaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was using the festival engine, but the voices were getting on my nerves :( If you're interested in speech then you should have a look at the CLSU toolkit from Oregon University :(be warned... the download can take up to an hour... regardless of your bandwidth)
I used it to help me get the visemes for my avatar working correctly - the Disney group of 12 are ok for most words, but they're based on US english pronunciation and don't quite fit UK english.--On 8/10/05, Ted Gilchrist <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Davy,
I use the Festival speech system. One huge advantage is that it's open software, and free.
One thing I've discovered. You listen to these voices long enough, and you grow quite fond of them, like a favorite uncle.
For something completely different, check out the comedy schtick at www.botcast.com.
Ted
On 8/10/05, Davy Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On 8/8/05, Ted Gilchrist < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess this would qualify as an aurally repurposed backstage project:
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/bbcworldRebotcast
Sounds like it uses the Java TTS system. Personally I don't like the
way it sounds :-)
Hate to say it, but the MS speech stuff is pretty good though the
documentation is somewhat difficult to follow.
A good Python wrapper is pyTTS
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~parente/tech/tr02.shtml
Cheers,
Davy Mitchell
http://www.latedecember.com
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