Re: New speech speed-up library available under GPL
- From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:09:56 -0500
Hi, LE. It is true the I can listen to sped up human speech faster
than I can listen to Eloquence. I believe I have decent comprehension
possibly as high as 4X speed up, while I only use voxin, which is an
old version of Eloquence, at 3.2X speed up. However, my speed is not
considered very fast.
I suspect this means that for people without years of listening
training, its easier to improve rapidly listening to human speech. It
remains to be seen if the "natural" voice TTS systems can be listened
to at rates similar to Eloquence. I'm hoping that they will do well.
I do suspect that we could all listen faster to sped up human voices,
but only if we get to train on a specific human voice. We can't
expect a specific person to read everything for us, so we'll have to
make due with TTS systems to get really fast.
Bill
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:21 AM, qubit <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi -- I am wondering if that is a true statement -- that you can listen to
> real speech faster than eloquence. Like a lot of people addicted to
> eloquence -- well it has been a great little synth and has the property that
> it can read at ridiculously fast rates without loss of comprehension, for
> experienced speech users. At slower speeds, it is true it is much easier to
> listen to more real-sounding voices. But the robotic ones are the ones you
> can exploit -- or is that what you are trying to change?
>
> I'm anxious to try your program. Perhaps I will download it when i have a
> chance later this week.
> Thanks -- sounds exciting!
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Cox" <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 6:40 PM
> 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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