* John Wojnaroski -- Monday 06 February 2006 17:25:
> The original code I sent on to Dave Luft had a socket interface in the
> AI module for the ATIS and AI controller.
It still has. With hardcoded IP address, which I find a bit suboptimal
for usage by anyone but you:
#define ATC_SERVER_ADDRESS "192.168.2.15" // adddress of machine running
festival server
We shouldn't have to advise users to run a festival server on machine
192.168.2.15, port 7100, when the *vast* majority of users would
prefer localhost:1314, which is the festival default. :-)
> Somewhere on a disc that code and a "howto" I started on setting up the
> festival server/client interface to FG exists.
I would be interested in that. I think that the festival interface needs
some rework, but I don't want to remove current capabilities. I'd like
to merge that into my approach. I'm now supporting multiple voices that
can speak at the same time, each with different pitch & speed. Individual
volume doesn't work yet, and I'm not sure if it can be done at all. Better
voices don't work yet, either. (If anyone can tell me how to do that
over telnet, please tell me.) I have two such groups in my preferences.xml:
<voice>
<desc>Copilot/Instructor Voice</desc>
<text type="string"></text>
<volume type="double">1.0</volume>
<pitch type="double">150.0</pitch>
<speed type="double">0.9</speed>
<preamble type="string">(SayText "FlightGear Flight Simulator")</preamble>
</voice>
The preamble is really for selecting a different voice or testing
purposes. <text> is the property that one sets to make the voice
subsystem speak with this voice.
> There was also a speech recognition program using SphinxII under [...]
I had looked at that a long time ago and wasn't thrilled. I don't
remember if it was complicated to set up or didn't compile. It's certainly
not in wide use yet, which festival is. I'm sure that several Linux
distributions come with festival already. Mine does.
> The festival produced speech is very mechanicasl, but can be *humanized*
> with a markup language called SABLE.
But the current ATC voice doesn't use that either, right? Nor am I.
> The ATC chatter added by Curtis creates an amazingly real aural
> environment, even if a bit out of context.
That's not a problem. I hardly understand a word. ;-)
But yes, it's great, nevertheless!
m.
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