Re: New speech speed-up library available under GPL
- From: Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 17:34:18 -0600
Jim,
Wikipedia appears to have an interesting article on the subject of
tts. I googled "Create tts engine" and came up with all sorts of
things that article among them. Probably a good place to start.
Have fun,
Alex M
On 11/9/10, Homme, James <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I would love to understand how to control the lengths of vows and consonants
> as speech speeds up.
>
> Jim
>
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> Hi,
> What has to be done to get it into NVDA?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
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> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Midence
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>
> He succeeded wonderfully. Even got emacspeak with espeak to work
> without chopping off the ends of syllables in links and line endings.
> Also can navigate by char now. In orca and speak-up, espeak now
> sounds fluid when sped up to about 300 words per minute. As for the
> clarity of it or the asthetics of the voice, it is still espeak. It
> doesn't sound as nice as eloquence or dectalk or anything like that
> but, it's free and its fast and it works just fine. Nice work, Bill.
>
> Alex M
>
> On 11/9/10, Ken Perry <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I think Bill is applying this library to the speech dispatcher so that
>> should take care of making speeding up espeak sound better.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Homme, James
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 7:01 AM
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>> Subject: RE: New speech speed-up library available under GPL
>>
>> 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
>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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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