Hi John,
From memory:
On Nov 4, 2009, at 8:42 PM, John Delaney wrote:
One thing I've noticed is that the syntax in the
speechserverprotocol is different from the notation used by the
eventlist and monet, ie:
notionalPitch Setting a base pitch
pretonicRange How much pitch movement occurs *before* reaching
the tonic foot in the tone group being processed -- see last email
pretonicLift How much the pre-tonic feet are raised
tonicRange
tonicMovement How much pitch movement occurs in the tonic
These relate to the intonation contour as set up for Monet. You need
a little understanding of the Halliday basis of the intonation
are named differently than:
speed; To do with the rate of speech
elasticity; Obsolete parameter.
intonation; Is intonation applied or not
voiceType; Male/female/child
pitchOffset; Difference in pitch from the default pitch
volume; The volume and balance have the obvious meaning
balance;
These relate to the set-up for the TextToSpeech Server You may find
the Developer_TextToSpeech_Manual.pdf that I referenced in my last
email helps you understand some of the Server parameters. Looking at
the intonation control in Monet will help you understand the
intonation contour parameters used in experiments with Monet and not
really part of the Server adjustments as far as the user is concerned.
david
I'm not sure which variables correspond to what, so I'll take a
good first stab and try to get things working for my purposes now.
Thank you,
John Delaney
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:21 PM, John Delaney <[email protected]>
wrote:
Here I was trying to implement a speech synthesis API for a
graduate musical synthesis class, and now I'm getting roped into
actually working on the project. I'll implement some sort of
Parameter class to hold the current intonation parameters, that
should be pretty simple.
Would it be possible for the synthesis engine to ramp up the
intonation at the end of a sentence whenever there is a question
mark? I don't think I have seen a synthesis engine, yet to do
this, and it seems like such a small/easy thing to do.
Perhaps I'll revisit this when I eventually take machine learning
classes.
Thank you,
John Delaney
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda
<[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, you are correct. All those server methods are yet to be
implemented. Currently the server just supports speaking text with
the defaults that were taken from Monet. This is certainly one area
that could use some filling out, and any contribution would be more
than welcome.
Best,
Dalmazio
On 2009-11-04, at 5:54 PM, John Delaney wrote:
Thank you all for your help. I have switched to using the server
method because its very easy and functional. Am I mistaken,
though that many of the parameters such as pitch and intonation
have not yet been implemented to the server? I am looking at the
server and all the get/set methods have return zero. I suppose I
will need to impliment those if this is the case.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda
<[email protected]> wrote:
Have a look at Linked Frameworks section in the Xcode Groups &
Files pane. I've found in the past that for setting up the project
on a different system, I've often had to remove the custom
frameworks (Tube and GnuSpeech) and then add them again, so Xcode
correctly picks up the new locations -- unless they're in standard
system Framework folders. If you would like additional information
on Xcode, have a look at the book "Xcode Unleashed" -- there may
be others.
Also, you might just want to confirm that when you open up the
build options panel (CMD-i), select the Build tab, and some ways
down you will see in the "Search Paths" section the option:
Framework Paths, specifically, double-click and see that it's set
to "$(SRCROOT)/.." with the "recursive" switch turned on. This is
set for all the individual xcode projects. This expands out to
show you the actual additional paths used to search and link
against. $(SRCROOT) is configured on my system to point to "../.."
in the General tab of the project info panel (CMD-i).
Alternatively, you can just use hard paths in specifying the
header/framework paths.
If you have the frameworks installed, then you might want to go to
where they are (/Library/Frameworks/GnuSpeech.framework and /
Library/Frameworks/Tube.framework) and rename them (say
with .original appended), and then create links in /Library/
Frameworks/ to the compiled frameworks in your project directory.
You only really need to do this if you think you will be modifying
or experimenting with the Tube and GnuSpeech frameworks. That way
apps pick up the latest changes to these frameworks, instead of
using the previously installed frameworks.
Also, if you have problems, try opening up the Tube and GnuSpeech
xcode projects, and build them separately. Then go back and try
and build the various apps etc. that depend on them. This in the
event of some odd Xcode project configuration settings.
If you've made any other changes to the build settings, I suggest
downloading another copy of the distribution as a backup
"reference-only" copy so you can compare against it to see if
your build settings for any given project match. Accidental or
experimental changes to some of these settings may result in
warnings or even errors during compilation/linking.
Best,
Dalmazio
On 2009-11-04, at 12:06 PM, John Delaney wrote:
Ok, found the diagnostic info. I have the most recent build of
GnuSpeech, and the applications do produce speech.
Also I have a question, I notice that in Xcode, rather than
having the compiled frameworks, you have an xcode project of the
framework. When I try to do that I get linking errors. How do
you do include the uncompiled frameworks and then get them to
compile? I've looked through all the settings and can't figure
out the problem. Pardon my rookie questions.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Dalmazio Brisinda
<[email protected]> wrote:
John,
Could you try installing the latest pre-compiled beta-release
version and see if the various applications generate speech? Then
we can hopefully rule out any sort of system configuration issue
-- at least as far as the executable apps and libs are concerned.
Also, to get the backtrace of the segmentation fault, open
Console, and show the Log List. Then scroll down and you should
see under the headings DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION -> User Diagnostic
Information -> <the crash file> or FILES -> ~/Library/Logs ->
CrashReporter -> <the crash file>
Best,
Dalmazio
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