On Jan 10, 2008 12:05 PM, Joshua Minor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 10, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > > On Jan 10, 2008 1:27 AM, Joshua Minor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > >> I made a new activity called Speak.... > > >> > >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speak
> >> Also, if anyone has experience or ideas on how to get access to > >> espeak's per-phoneme timing data from python, please let me know. > >> > >> -josh > > > > Do you want to do that while running, or would a precomputed table > > meet your needs? > > I would like to get callbacks for each phoneme while the voice is > playing, so that I can shape the mouth correctly for each one. If > done well, this could be a nice visual cue to help understand the voice. Plus a new accessibility feature. The illiterate deaf who can read lips would be able to use the XO. Upstream would greatly appreciate that. At some point we could think about a matching cutaway view of the vocal tract for language learners. I would love to see you animate the Xhosa 'x' and 'q' clicks (See Miriam Makeba, The Click Song/Qongqotwane), and all of the different 'rhotic' sounds (flap r as in Japanese, trill as in Italian, hard retroflex as in southern New Jersey, Boston, German gurgle, etc.). "Izu zato 'aru' azu in Rondon, oru 'elu' azu in Loma?" "Ar-r-r-r-r-r-rivider-r-r-rci, R-r-roma..." If you haven't heard the south Jersey dialect, I can't convey it to you. You won't hear it on House MD, but you should. "Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd." German, spoken, not sung. An uvular trill before a vowel. "Grün, alles grün, so rings und rund." Hey, wow, it's been done! Well, only the static positions on this site, but presumably there is more elsewhere. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html INTERACTIVE SAGITTAL SECTION > I would also have to rework how espeak is wired up to gstreamer. > Right now I have espeak write out a wav file and then I play that > back via the gst module. I wasn't able to get them piped together in > a reliable way. Specifically when I run espeak --stdout and then > attach that to a gst pipeline that starts with an fdsrc, it only > works once. I was not able to restart or rebuild a new pipeline to > speak another sentence. > > -josh -- Edward Cherlin Earth Treasury: End Poverty at a Profit http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel