Re: BSD voice synthesis
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 your comments.
Has anyone had any problems with the volume being far too low?
I cannot get this far. Festival only coredumps when I try to start it
up. Could you send me a description of how I can reproduce your exact
build of Festival?
did you compile with SHARED=1 with speech tools? that doesn't work on
freebsd.
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Re: BSD voice synthesis
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 your comments.
Has anyone had any problems with the volume being far too low?
I cannot get this far. Festival only coredumps when I try to start it
up. Could you send me a description of how I can reproduce your exact
build of Festival?
did you compile with SHARED=1 with speech tools? that doesn't work on
freebsd.
--
BLINK ;for (74,1970500640,1634627444,1751478816,1348825708,543711587,
1801810465){for($x=11^1;$x=11;$x--) {$q=hex ff,$r=oct($x=~s,\d,$*
10,e,$x),$x/=1/.1,$q=$r,$s.=chr (($_$q)$r),$t++}}while(-r$0-e$0)
{$o=$o?$?:$/;$|=1;print $o?$s:$x$t if$;;print\bx$t;sleep 1} /BLINK
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Re: BSD voice synthesis
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, 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 (CS423x/Yamaha/AD1816 CS4236 sn 0x) at 0x530-0x537 irq 5 drq 1 fl ags 0x13 on isa and I run mixer pcm 80 in /etc/rc.local, to set the volume to a comfortable level for playing .mp3 files and the like. If I turn the speakers right up then I can hear the output, but then everything else is distorted. Any thoughts? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: BSD voice synthesis
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 (CS423x/Yamaha/AD1816 CS4236 sn 0x) at 0x530-0x537 irq 5 drq 1 fl ags 0x13 on isa and I run mixer pcm 80 in /etc/rc.local, to set the volume to a comfortable level for playing .mp3 files and the like. If I turn the speakers right up then I can hear the output, but then everything else is distorted. Any thoughts? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in 37514...@cs.colorado.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: BSD voice synthesis
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 too low? I cannot get this far. Festival only coredumps when I try to start it up. Could you send me a description of how I can reproduce your exact build of Festival? N -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / Any sufficiently advanced bug is\ gr...@freebsd.org | indistinguishable from a feature. | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!\-- Rich Kulawiec / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: BSD voice synthesis
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, 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 (CS423x/Yamaha/AD1816 CS4236 sn 0x) at 0x530-0x537 irq 5 drq 1 fl ags 0x13 on isa and I run mixer pcm 80 in /etc/rc.local, to set the volume to a comfortable level for playing .mp3 files and the like. If I turn the speakers right up then I can hear the output, but then everything else is distorted. Any thoughts? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in 37514...@cs.colorado.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: BSD voice synthesis
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 currently does with English, seeing as you guys have nearly phonetic spelling. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: BSD voice synthesis
[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 expect it to cope with Finnish much better than it currently does with English, seeing as you guys have nearly phonetic spelling. Festival is basically language-independent, each voice is associated with a specific language, so with a Finnish voice it should be able to pronounce Finnish reasonably. Since the English voices have dictionaries for pronunciation, anyhow, a Finnish voice wouldn't necessarily do a better job in terms of pronunciation, although a Finnish voice should require fewer distinct phonemes. Creating voices does seem to involve quite a bit of work, though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: BSD voice synthesis
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 is, of course, better than SAM, but apparently the data and processing requirements are several orders of magnitude greater). I haven't downloaded all of the required stuff, yet, so I don't know how good or bad it actually might be. I certainly don't expect any of the available voices to be able to pronounce Finnish names correctly, even with phonetic specifications. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: BSD voice synthesis
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 does with English, seeing as you guys have nearly phonetic spelling. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: BSD voice synthesis
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 expect it to cope with Finnish much better than it currently does with English, seeing as you guys have nearly phonetic spelling. Festival is basically language-independent, each voice is associated with a specific language, so with a Finnish voice it should be able to pronounce Finnish reasonably. Since the English voices have dictionaries for pronunciation, anyhow, a Finnish voice wouldn't necessarily do a better job in terms of pronunciation, although a Finnish voice should require fewer distinct phonemes. Creating voices does seem to involve quite a bit of work, though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: BSD voice synthesis
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 slow, but I hope that I'll be able to get just the bits I need to make it a bit faster. 'festival' itself seems to totoally skip the word "FreeBSD" when I asked it to say (from the manual) I'm using a pIII-450 and it pronounces it "freebs". However if you spell it "Free B S D" it does just fine. Seems to do well with most words I've thrown at it - including some last names (it does mine almost perfect, but blows some real easy ones). [you need..] A Unix machine, Festival has compiled and run on Suns (SunOS and Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, SGIs, HPs and DEC Alphas but should be portable to any standard Unix machine. Did gmake test work for you in festival? It did for me in speech-tools but not festival even tho it seems to work well. Sure is gonna make some of these boring README files easier! ...wonder how hard it'd be to tie it into the select buffer in X... Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] flame-mail: /dev/null # include std/disclaimers.h TEAM-OS2 Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com == To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: BSD voice synthesis
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 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 slow, but I hope that I'll be able to get just the bits I need to make it a bit faster. 'festival' itself seems to totoally skip the word "FreeBSD" when I asked it to say (from the manual) 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?) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: BSD voice synthesis
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 slow, but I hope that I'll be able to get just the bits I need to make it a bit faster. 'festival' itself seems to totoally skip the word FreeBSD when I asked it to say (from the manual) I'm using a pIII-450 and it pronounces it freebs. However if you spell it Free B S D it does just fine. Seems to do well with most words I've thrown at it - including some last names (it does mine almost perfect, but blows some real easy ones). [you need..] A Unix machine, Festival has compiled and run on Suns (SunOS and Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, SGIs, HPs and DEC Alphas but should be portable to any standard Unix machine. Did gmake test work for you in festival? It did for me in speech-tools but not festival even tho it seems to work well. Sure is gonna make some of these boring README files easier! ...wonder how hard it'd be to tie it into the select buffer in X... Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: v...@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include std/disclaimers.h TEAM-OS2 Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com == To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: BSD voice synthesis
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 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 slow, but I hope that I'll be able to get just the bits I need to make it a bit faster. 'festival' itself seems to totoally skip the word FreeBSD when I asked it to say (from the manual) 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?) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ w...@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: BSD voice synthesis
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 Amiga.. type foobar.txt speak:someoptionsgohere :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum pgpZsT8Ykg04z.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: BSD voice synthesis
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 for the Apple ][. It was a cool program. :) Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Bureaucrats cut red tape -- lengthwise. mailto:gsut...@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
