RE: New speech speed-up library available under GPL
- From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 10:57:59 -0500
Hi Bill,
I was hoping that someone would do this for Windows when I talked about that. I
was talking about the project at Source Forge. But thanks for doing this.
And here's a note to any hackers out there. If you hate to do documentation, I
can help with that.
Jim
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-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Cox
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 10:14 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: New speech speed-up library available under GPL
You're quite right... I've been trying to incorporate sonic into
speech-dispatcher, but pretty much the only Linux voices people seem
to use are espeak and voxin, at least with Vinux. I'll switch gears
and integrate it into espeak first.
Bill
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Homme, Jamems <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> It would be wonderful if someone would have a look at Espeak. I don't know C,
> so I can't help with that project.
>
> Jim
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Cox
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 7:40 PM
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> Subject: Re: New speech speed-up library available under GPL
>
> Hi, Stefik. There aren't any tutorials yet. The project is too new.
> I'm currently hacking it into speech-dispatcher to enable Linux users
> to enjoy it.
>
> I do believe it will be useful in a lot of places. Mainly, I was
> worried that excellent TTS systems like Eloquence are slowly going
> away, leaving people with vision impairments with only slow natural
> speech TTS systems. Now I feel that problem is solved, as we can
> speed up any natural TTS system and I think achieve very high
> listening rates. I've been testing my friends and family (they think
> I'm weird, but that's nothing new). My family can listen from 2.5X to
> 3X faster than recorded without training, and my old school friend can
> listen at 3.5X speed up. I can listen at about 4X, but I've been
> training to speed-listen for over a year. All of us can listen to
> real voices at faster rates than we can alisten to Eloquence. This
> leads me to be hopeful about the future of TTS.
>
> Bill
>> Any tutorials available for how you would use it with various existing
>> speech architectures? This sounds like a useful project.
>>
>> Stefik
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 11/4/10, Bill Cox <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> I've release a new very simple library for speeding up or slowing down
>>>> speech. It's primary strength is high quality at greater than 2X
>>>> speed up. The code can be checked out with:
>>>>
>>>> $ git clone git://vinux-project.org/sonic
>>>>
>>>> There are speech samples in the samples directory. The primary
>>>> motivation for this library is to enable low speed speech synthesizers
>>>> to play at high speed with high quality. My hope is that many will be
>>>> as easy to comprehend as Eloquence, giving us a lot more options in
>>>> high speed TTS.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
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