In that case, for text to speech summary intros, please keep the woman voice if you can... Or figure out how to switch the ESpeak voice to the Klatt 4 voice. The woman's voice reminds me of summaries from the show called "A Lot Of Linux Links," though in this case, it does sound more natural.
On 11/20/14, Ken Fallon <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2014-11-20 18:54, Trenton Matthews wrote: >> I myself am wondering, as an optional idea (if the person has >> expertise in editing shows themselves,) if they could add the sponsor >> at the appropriate spot during a particular theme? > > No. > > Firstly we use different messages depending on the location where ther > episode is served from. > > Secondly hosts rarely download new themes and templates after their > first episode. I am still getting shows with the old intros and outros > attached. > > Thirdly it adds enormous effort to check if everything has been added. > There is no way to do it automatically, so I will need to download every > episode and check them end to end. > >> As I am myself, a blind/visually impaired user, the speech at the >> beginning is also a bit off putting. > > I can understand that it annoys blind users who are used to tweaking > their tts, but it's there as a convenience for people who are operating > vehicles, listening while running, etc. It has been the most requested > feature over the years. > > It allows people to know what the show is about so they can choose to > delete it, listen to it now, or later. It means that they can continue > doing what ever task they are doing by just pressing delete, or next. > This is why it must be at the very beginning after the sponsor message, > and before the intro. > > There is an option to add it yourself at the beginning and signalling > that in the show notes. Of the times that setting has been flagged, over > 50% had forgotten to add the summary or had put it in the wrong place. > This means that for shows where it is flagged, I now download and > manually check for the summary before I process the shows. I am not > always at a location that has the bandwidth to download the large flac > files to listen to them, so this is leading to processing delays. > > Like changing the intro, removing the text to speech summary will > require approved from the list and the community at large. > > Given the amount of effort that has been put into enabling the text to > speech summary end to end, I personally will be strongly against this > effort unless there is majority support to remove it. > > - -- > Regards, > > Ken Fallon > http://kenfallon.com > http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=30 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUbjP9AAoJECO2jUN3MRFptykP/3eAo0DvUC4vxO4i5xMkflys > pB3a8Ep1VNXr4eH4VlGP8m6x57xBQjsByprYtOmzdljU/6WGgqRTZW90KBTvyEl4 > XLFp/k3zgJtl4PMUYy7dIT8CLwQQBf/GIHVuqdqXm222Lg5Oqtl/vUE9SzWy9zeb > OvgZeMansjIizOqKrsGcE9atydymailwk6R/r2aurFVyBzmK+WY7umeMHZz3demw > gRhMM78UnluEpDLM3ebnLxXzk8H6mEL6dsDezbBwCbvn9E+dwajud9m2SGD7eTf7 > R7CuK4DgOzIN5q0K71Yl5V7xGKxcddnZRvwM/fASH99WKG/8PGT/qgXQgVcsM0Eg > IbkMFluje2SKHkSxMXT7uxgkiJgAtw+RilZRY5DBPlHG7LkxxD28le4tL3JFo03W > AETNdQgqIbwfZ1sh+hIWDf8Lw2t06KJllvx8Km7PfL5w5GacPCqT9msYbyLFmEep > 5gi2kAMvAht6lCxlFuDFJlHp1dzIrS/3r8G73F5qKzb3FhFHsQ2r4jJSROZbVWkb > LZC42yEs+Zn0P14wiXgrwpxI5VTh4Q0b8Xj0ohLgSJSqgio1EIcVXNtCj7aMZigc > uWpMgXJ4EZlhXzvQmxe7M8XRgxMXrKLDCZyacL4mhAY9+EwXMeczN3m2cNbR1wMb > ZbOoWWyNcCQe7DIJTpa9 > =y+fA > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
