Bill Cox, le Mon 13 Dec 2010 09:17:16 -0500, a écrit : > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bill Cox, le Mon 13 Dec 2010 07:23:00 -0500, a écrit : > >> Sonic has been incorporated in the most recent version of espeak, > > > > You mean espeak is able to automatically call sonic it after the TTS stage? > > (as an external library rather than copy/pasting code into espeak). > > The author of espeak, Jonathan Duddington, copied the sonic.c and > sonic.h files from the sonic source into espeak's source, so no, it's > not linking to the sonic library. I believe this is how each of the > three TTS engines is doing it today. As libsonic not in Debian, they > really don't have much choice.
That's not really a reason. If a user is able to install espeak, he is able to install sonic beforehand. And still, they do have the choice: they can add a Makefile option to use the external lib. > > I'm wondering why espeak, which knows how its own speech flow works, > > is less able to achieve speedups than sonic, which is supposed to be > > working with any TTS. > > Espeak does a better job than sonic at speed up up to around 350 words > per minute, which is the range the author has tuned it well. Ok, that makes sense. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
