Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-21 Thread Dennis Moore
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 03:44:56PM -0700, Brian F. Feldman wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:37:39AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival Likewise, based

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-21 Thread Dennis Moore
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 03:44:56PM -0700, Brian F. Feldman wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:37:39AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: Just fetched and compiled the festival package. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival Likewise, based on

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-18 Thread Julian Elischer
I haven't played with it for a few weeks, but I recall seeing a default volume somewhere. (in the documantation) I think you can set it in your init files but I can't go look right now. julian (it seemed ok to me but I didn't test it too much) On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: On Tue,

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-18 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:37:39AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: Just fetched and compiled the festival package. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival Likewise, based on your comments. Has anyone had any problems with the volume being far too low? The sound card on this box is a pcm2

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-18 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:37:39AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: Just fetched and compiled the festival package. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival Likewise, based on your comments. Has anyone had any problems with the volume being far

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-18 Thread Julian Elischer
I haven't played with it for a few weeks, but I recall seeing a default volume somewhere. (in the documantation) I think you can set it in your init files but I can't go look right now. julian (it seemed ok to me but I didn't test it too much) On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: On Tue,

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Ville-Pertti Keinonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I certainly don't expect any of the available voices to be able to pronounce Finnish names correctly, even with phonetic specifications. If the software were *designed* to speak Finnish, I'd expect it to cope with Finnish much better than it

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-04 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) writes: Ville-Pertti Keinonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I certainly don't expect any of the available voices to be able to pronounce Finnish names correctly, even with phonetic specifications. If the software were *designed* to speak Finnish, I'd

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-04 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
w...@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) writes: available for home computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use SAM the Software Automated Mouth for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) Yes. It's almost surprising how little speech synthesis has improved, at least judging from the festival demos (it

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Ville-Pertti Keinonen w...@iki.fi writes: I certainly don't expect any of the available voices to be able to pronounce Finnish names correctly, even with phonetic specifications. If the software were *designed* to speak Finnish, I'd expect it to cope with Finnish much better than it currently

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-04 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
d...@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) writes: Ville-Pertti Keinonen w...@iki.fi writes: I certainly don't expect any of the available voices to be able to pronounce Finnish names correctly, even with phonetic specifications. If the software were *designed* to speak Finnish, I'd

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and understand it a bit better. They seem to have support for up to 4.0 in some of the files, so maybe they actually have a freebsd user in their group. It's big and(on my p90) a bit

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Wes Peters
Julian Elischer wrote: Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival it has support for FreeBSD already (seems to work fine) Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and understand it a bit better. They seem to have

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and understand it a bit better. They seem to have support for up to 4.0 in some of the files, so maybe they actually have a freebsd user in their group. It's big and(on my p90) a bit

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Wes Peters
Julian Elischer wrote: Just fetched and compiled the festival package. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival it has support for FreeBSD already (seems to work fine) Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and understand it a bit better. They seem to have

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 03-Aug-99 Wes Peters wrote: Try Free B S D. Tricks like that used to work well with the simple ones available for home computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use SAM the Software Automated Mouth for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) Personally I liked the speak: device for the

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Gregory Sutter
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:17:05AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: Try Free B S D. Tricks like that used to work well with the simple ones available for home computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use SAM the Software Automated Mouth for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) No, but I used it