Re: NO ONE knows??
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 12:37:54AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Gary Kline skrev: > > > What I'm looking for is how to use the ``better than the > > default voices''; there are several english languages that > > are fairly natural sounding. Nothing I've googled explain > > using the quality voices for FreeBSD. > > > > gary > > http://espeak.sourceforge.net/docindex.html Tried/found this before at least once. The cmdline: % espeak mb-en1 "hello" outputs the string data that "hello" is composed on. Following further with the linux example is difficult because there is no "usr/local/share/espeak/en1" --neither file nor directory. I did locate the 796-byte data file: /usr/local/share/espeak/espeak-data/mbrola_ph/en1_phtrans but don't have a clue. From what I've been able to glean, this mbrola stuff is > ten years old. Whoever was laboring away just dropped it. I've dug into this computer generated speech just a tiny bit. Yes, it is possible to have Very real-sounding voices, nearly human-sounding. But the complexity is extreme. No wonder the high-quality voices cost $thousands. Suggestions? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: NO ONE knows??
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:35:46PM -0700, Chris wrote: > > On Oct 2, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > > >On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:07:58PM +0200, DA Forsyth wrote: > >>On 2 Oct 2009 , freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org entreated about > >>"freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 278, Issue 10": > >> > >>>Message: 28 > > > > What I'm looking for is how to use the ``better than the > > default voices''; there are several english languages that > > are fairly natural sounding. Nothing I've googled explain > > using the quality voices for FreeBSD. > > > > gary > > Gary, > > You should post this on the sourceforge forum for eSpeak. > I looked and it appears the developer himself responds to > questions people have. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/espeak/forums > > Chris > i did look this up several hours ago. by the time i set up my account And figured out howto use the forum site i found there were several involving espeak and mbroloa, but none answered the question. they all involved linux--this probably wasn't that important to my question. while i will continue poking around. gary > -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: NO ONE knows??
On Oct 2, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:07:58PM +0200, DA Forsyth wrote: On 2 Oct 2009 , freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org entreated about "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 278, Issue 10": Message: 28 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:22:45 -0700 From: Gary Kline Subject: NO ONE knows?? To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20091001192241.ga5...@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii so ==nobody== know how to get espeak working with the high-quality voices? hard to believe on this list... I use espeak, but have never tried to use any other than the stock voice, it works just fine. I suspect most other folks have the same experience. I use espeak to verbalize warnings and errors from XYMON on the main server which sits next to me, since I'm not always looking at email. What I'm looking for is how to use the ``better than the default voices''; there are several english languages that are fairly natural sounding. Nothing I've googled explain using the quality voices for FreeBSD. gary Gary, You should post this on the sourceforge forum for eSpeak. I looked and it appears the developer himself responds to questions people have. http://sourceforge.net/projects/espeak/forums Chris gary -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org " -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/ index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org " ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: NO ONE knows??
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:07:58PM +0200, DA Forsyth wrote: > On 2 Oct 2009 , freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org entreated about > "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 278, Issue 10": > > > Message: 28 > > Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:22:45 -0700 > > From: Gary Kline > > Subject: NO ONE knows?? > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > > Message-ID: <20091001192241.ga5...@thought.org> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > > > so ==nobody== know how to get espeak working with the high-quality > > voices? hard to believe on this list... > > I use espeak, but have never tried to use any other than the stock > voice, it works just fine. I suspect most other folks have the same > experience. > > I use espeak to verbalize warnings and errors from XYMON on the main > server which sits next to me, since I'm not always looking at email. > What I'm looking for is how to use the ``better than the default voices''; there are several english languages that are fairly natural sounding. Nothing I've googled explain using the quality voices for FreeBSD. gary > > gary > > > -- >DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor > Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research > http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ > > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: NO ONE knows??
On 2 Oct 2009 , freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org entreated about "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 278, Issue 10": > Message: 28 > Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:22:45 -0700 > From: Gary Kline > Subject: NO ONE knows?? > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Message-ID: <20091001192241.ga5...@thought.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > so ==nobody== know how to get espeak working with the high-quality > voices? hard to believe on this list... I use espeak, but have never tried to use any other than the stock voice, it works just fine. I suspect most other folks have the same experience. I use espeak to verbalize warnings and errors from XYMON on the main server which sits next to me, since I'm not always looking at email. > gary -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: NO ONE knows??
Gary Kline said the following on 2009-10-01 21:22: so ==nobody== know how to get espeak working with the high-quality voices? hard to believe on this list... Have you checked the documentaion, and hoe do you want to use it with OO? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
