Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-10 Thread David Luff
Melchior FRANZ writes: I'll start to commit once I got permission. (The old ATC voice thing will lose the /sim/sound/voice property first, which is used as an enabled flag, and finally die.) Eek - that's somewhat unfortunate phraseology you're using there, given that it's my wife

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-10 Thread David Luff
Melchior FRANZ writes: * David Luff -- Friday 10 February 2006 23:09: Melchior FRANZ writes: I'll start to commit once I got permission. (The old ATC voice thing will lose the /sim/sound/voice property first, which is used as an enabled flag, and finally die.) Eek - that's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-08 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Wojnaroski schrieb: If someone wants to provide me with a script or list of phrases to record I know I can find a professionally trained voice to create the audio files. As for a Texan accent, I think we can work that as well and probably a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-08 Thread Isao Yamashita
Agreed.As far as a list of phrases / voices goes : Voice Type (Preferrably all girl's voice) :BritishFrenchGermanSpanishRussian Texan !--- Computer Voices --- Altitude !Warning !Caution ! (everytime the master caution light flashes)Windshear !Pull Up !Landing Gear (when near ground and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-08 Thread John Wojnaroski
Okay, that's a start The text-to-speech stuff is best handled by festival, so we won't do those. Combinations of words and phrases are best handled by something other than canned audio files, just way too many possibilities for context specific communications. Things like ATC chatter

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-07 Thread Vivian Meazza
I wrote I'm working at getting Festival to compile under Cygwin. They claim that it does, and, while it's very long-winded, it's looking good so far ... Is that pronounced WINE-D or WIN-D? Nah - that's as in it doesn't work - yet :-( After some trouble and lots of help

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-07 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Martin Spott schrieb: Stefan Seifert wrote: [...] Now if one could add distortions to festival for making radio transmissions more realistic it would be perfect :) Push the whole thing through a GSM codec on a loaded machine and you're done :-) Listening to the ATC chatter introduced by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-07 Thread John Wojnaroski
If someone wants to provide me with a script or list of phrases to record I know I can find a professionally trained voice to create the audio files. As for a Texan accent, I think we can work that as well and probably a few others as well. Do we want it a 8hz or 16hz? Regards John W. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: It just doesn't look as if there's much interest. The original code was written for/by John Wojnaroski so you might be asking this a the wrong time. Personally I feel it would be a nice addition. Erik -- http://www.ehtw.info (Dutch)Future of Enschede Airport

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-06 Thread Josh Babcock
Melchior FRANZ wrote: Would be nice if the b29 copilot reported gear down etc., or the bo105 copilot gave some navigation hints (I think we are too far already. :-) Actually, there are plans for this. Originally I was just going to have messages from the crew pop up in windows, but at one

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Melchior FRANZ * Erik Hofman -- Monday 06 February 2006 13:35: The original code was written for/by John Wojnaroski so you might be asking this a the wrong time. Personally I feel it would be a nice addition. OK, then I'll continue to work on it (as I've done since yesterday). I'll make

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Vivian Meazza wrote: I'm working at getting Festival to compile under Cygwin. They claim that it does, and, while it's very long-winded, it's looking good so far ... Is that pronounced WINE-D or WIN-D? :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Curtis L. Olson Vivian Meazza wrote: I'm working at getting Festival to compile under Cygwin. They claim that it does, and, while it's very long-winded, it's looking good so far ... Is that pronounced WINE-D or WIN-D? Nah - that's as in it doesn't work - yet :-( Vivian

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-06 Thread John Wojnaroski
Yes, this is going to be a crazy week. But quickly then; The original code I sent on to Dave Luft had a socket interface in the AI module for the ATIS and AI controller. Somewhere on a disc that code and a howto I started on setting up the festival server/client interface to FG exists. There

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Isao Yamashita wrote: I thinks it is also useful to simulate the bitchin' betty computer voices for military jets / airliner planes. You know, I even asked the female that has spoken in the original Bitchin' Betty commands for the F-16 for some audio files. Unfortunately I never got an