On 12/24/2010 01:53 PM, Mirko Stanisak wrote: > I've used Flite to generate voices in ATC simulations (so that you can listen > to the commands between simulated pilots and controllers). It worked quite > well, the speech was understandable quite well, even if it sounded very > artificial. On the other hand, one could certain do a better voice for ATC as > the vocabulary is very limited in this case.
The voice quality of flite is a) good enough for ATIS/AWOS (which in real life are often synthesized and artificial-sounding), and b) better than anything that is likely to be achieved anytime soon using the current code that pastes together snippets, and c) infinitely better than what is in the git repo at the moment, which is no ATIS at all. Also: The cpu workload of flite is pleasantly small. On my machine it takes something like 60 milliseconds to render a typical ATIS message. Furthermore -- if properly implemented -- this could be done in a separate thread, so that in a modern multi-cpu machine no time at all would be taken away from the main simulation. To say the same thing another way: I have an investment in the existing snippet-based system, but I would be well pleased to see it replaced by something better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
