Re: New speech speed-up library available under GPL
- From: Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 19:15:46 -0600
On 11/8/10, Bill Cox <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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