More 'human' voice synth (TTS)

2011-06-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I'm wondering if there's anything we can do to make TTS sound more 'human'. We'd like to be able to use the XOs to teach English literacy, but the espeak voices are very robotic. My understanding is that espeak is optimised for low-power devices (great for XOs) and clear (if robotic) speech.

Re: More 'human' voice synth (TTS)

2011-06-21 Thread Paul Fox
sridhar wrote: I'm wondering if there's anything we can do to make TTS sound more 'human'. We'd like to be able to use the XOs to teach English literacy, but the espeak voices are very robotic. My understanding is that espeak is optimised for low-power devices (great for XOs) and

Re: [OLPC-AU] More 'human' voice synth (TTS)

2011-06-21 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.auwrote: I'm wondering if there's anything we can do to make TTS sound more 'human'. We'd like to be able to use the XOs to teach English literacy, but the espeak voices are very robotic. My understanding is that espeak

New F13-arm build os12

2011-06-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
The better boot-time debugging build. http://build.laptop.org/F13-arm/os12/ Changelog: * Early boot kernel debugging is now actually enabled - just like os11 promised (but didn't do). We still hope to understand #10991 * Updated olpc-runin-tests to v0.11-2 * Audio works... only when paired

New F13-arm build os13

2011-06-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
The sound of reboot build. http://build.laptop.org/F13-arm/os13/ Changelog: * Audio playback works with current OFW (Q4A16). Update OFW, perform a full poweroff (a soft-reboot does not clear audio registers), then test with aplay /usr/share/sound/alsa/* In earlier builds, audio playback would

Re: New F13-arm build os13

2011-06-21 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 08:35:36PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: To install: ok fs-update ext:\os13.zd You should be able to use u:\os13.zd now, let me know if it doesn't work. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list

i18n assistance needed - batti

2011-06-21 Thread Chris Leonard
Dear OLPC / Sugar devels, A package called batti (batti-0.3.8-1.fc14.noarch) is included in both the XO 1.5 and XO-1 11.2.0 builds, but unfortunately it is lacking in internationalization and it should be a simple matter for one of our developers to submit corrections on behalf the Translation