Re: [asterisk-users] text2wave Voices Improvements?
On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:52:21 -0400 Matthew Rubenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently have an AGI that calls the Festival text2wave app to write a wav file that my dialplan plays into a call with the Background() command. But the voice sounds terrible: like SAM, the 1980s 6502 voice synthesizer. I tried to slow it down by calling (text2wav -eval (Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 1.4) -scale 2.0 [...]), but it still sounds like it's talking while sucking down a strawful of spaghetti. How do I install a different voice, to speak basically simple emails? I'm (APT) installing on Debian 3.1/Sarge, Asterisk 1.4.x . works fine to me installing festvox-kallpc16k for speaker apt-get install festvox-kallpc16k festival ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] text2wave Voices Improvements?
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 20:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 19:08:25 -0300 From: Jo?o Paulo Vanzuita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] text2wave Voices Improvements? To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:52:21 -0400 Matthew Rubenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently have an AGI that calls the Festival text2wave app to write a wav file that my dialplan plays into a call with the Background() command. But the voice sounds terrible: like SAM, the 1980s 6502 voice synthesizer. I tried to slow it down by calling (text2wav -eval (Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 1.4) -scale 2.0 [...]), but it still sounds like it's talking while sucking down a strawful of spaghetti. How do I install a different voice, to speak basically simple emails? I'm (APT) installing on Debian 3.1/Sarge, Asterisk 1.4.x . works fine to me installing festvox-kallpc16k for speaker apt-get install festvox-kallpc16k festival I apt-get install'ed that package, and rablpc16k and kdlpc16k . But though it rab and kal voices work, kdl does not: #text2wave -o say.wav say.txt -eval (voice_kdl_diphone) (Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 1.4) -scale 2.0 SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : voice_kdl_diphone They all sound like a 1980s synth (which wasn't so bad, if you were familiar with the burbly voice). I'm using the first 2 sentences of (man man) as my test string: man is the system’s manual pager. Each page argument given to man is normally the name of a program, utility or function. Maybe there's some kind of hint characters I can insert to make it sound better? -- (C) Matthew Rubenstein ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] text2wave Voices Improvements?
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 07:08:25PM -0300, João Paulo Vanzuita wrote: On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:52:21 -0400 Matthew Rubenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently have an AGI that calls the Festival text2wave app to write a wav file that my dialplan plays into a call with the Background() command. But the voice sounds terrible: like SAM, the 1980s 6502 voice synthesizer. I tried to slow it down by calling (text2wav -eval (Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 1.4) -scale 2.0 [...]), but it still sounds like it's talking while sucking down a strawful of spaghetti. How do I install a different voice, to speak basically simple emails? I'm (APT) installing on Debian 3.1/Sarge, Asterisk 1.4.x . works fine to me installing festvox-kallpc16k for speaker apt-get install festvox-kallpc16k festival What gain will you get with a 16kHz sample rate over a 8kHz sample rate if you play the results to a 8kHz line anyway? Alternatively, if you use the festvox-kallpc8k, would it save CPU time? -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-50-7952406 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tzafrir ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[asterisk-users] text2wave Voices Improvements?
I currently have an AGI that calls the Festival text2wave app to write a wav file that my dialplan plays into a call with the Background() command. But the voice sounds terrible: like SAM, the 1980s 6502 voice synthesizer. I tried to slow it down by calling (text2wav -eval (Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 1.4) -scale 2.0 [...]), but it still sounds like it's talking while sucking down a strawful of spaghetti. How do I install a different voice, to speak basically simple emails? I'm (APT) installing on Debian 3.1/Sarge, Asterisk 1.4.x . Also, is there a way to call Background or some other Asterisk command to take the WAV data from a pipe to a running text2wav process, rather than writing a file with text2wave and then reading it (and then deleting it) in the dialplan/AGI? -- (C) Matthew Rubenstein ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
