Re: AUDIO ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (angelo)
Hi Tom, thanks for your email. It is a shame that your project halted :-( (sad emoticon) I did not grasp the meaning of your seecond paragraph, sorry. what do you mean by If you run though your use case for open sapi then i can begin to make that happen for you. Testing the italian TTS engines is a good start. I am not a programmer BUT I'll be happy to help: tell me how! who is the guy developing the GUI? thANKS ANGELO Il 31/08/2010 2.27, Thomas Lloyd ha scritto: > Hi Angelo, > > > Sorry I have been ever so lacks at reading the mailing list and have > only just seen your reference to my open sapi project. The project has > ground to a halt a the moment through lack of time and effort on my > part. I am only only one developing on the project and have not seen any > intrest from anyone for ages and have kinda let it slip. I would > appreciate some help and am willing to help you help out. Just driving > the project with some feedback would be useful as i am sitting here > developing with no idea what is good or not with what I am doing. > > > If you run though your use case for open sapi then i can begin to make > that happen for you. Testing the italian TTS engines is a good start. > There is another guy developing an interface for use with open sapi for > wav/mp3 generation so there is an option there for you. > > Tom > > > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
AUDIO ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
hi folks, can you help me on two issues? 1) TTS software and MP3 conversion 2) text dictation I tried FESTIVAL years ago but it was not satisfying for my needs. plus programs like textaloud in win or dspeech have a better interface. Orca was devastating to me :-( I need also Italian TTS for instance, how is the open sapi project going? On dictation, any improvements on the usage of dragon Naturally speaking or alternative products (Italian language as well) is there any way I can contribute to takle those issues? Thanks indeed Angelo -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: speech and access (angelo)
Tom Lloyd ha scritto: >> hi guys >> any news on the use of SAPI >> > > SAPI in v10 of DNS only supports SAPI4 to date. Newer versions so far are > unknown. > > > >> dragon naturally for >> Linux? >> > > DNS is not available for Limux only win, however it can br run using wine. > > This has proven to be false in my case:-((( then, if you are one of the few who enjoy it in linux, as far as I know, it still crushes after 15 min of use could not be done some package like picasa? it is a win souource pre-combined with some wine bits from what I ve red. >> thanks in advance >> Angelo >> > > I am keeping my fingers crossed for a version that support SAPI 5.x cool! > Tom > > Open-sapi - High Quality SAPI Text to Speech Engines in Linux: > http://code.google.com/p/open-sapi/ > > > > > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
speech and access
hi guys any news on the use of SAPI on the new version and dragon naturally for Linux? thanks in advance Angelo -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: help with voices (works) but...
I just typed what you suggested and, in the terminal, it spoke english what is that interactive shell? Il giorno dom, 26/07/2009 alle 20.03 +0400, Olga Yakovleva ha scritto: > Hello ANGELO, > If the voices you are trying to use with Orca are realy working in > Festival, then there should be no problems with them in Orca. I've just > tested nitech hts voices with Orca and they are working for me. Have you > tested those voices in Festival's interactive shell? > > Olga > > 26.07.2009 16:54, Angelo D. Marra пишет: > > > > Dear Olga, > > an update: I tried the commands from teminal: it works. :--) > > ORCA does not, it plays only the original festival voices why? > > I can see all the voices in orca. but not all of them work. > > > > > > BTW i need a front end for festival able to play, pause, chsange speed > > and locus in text, more then orca. > > I need it to open TXT RTF PDF and DOC or ODT. files > > Any idea? > > > > > > Thanks very much. > > ANGELO > > > > Il giorno dom, 26/07/2009 alle 12.38 +0400, Olga Yakovleva ha scritto: > >> Hello Angelo, > >> Sorry for first sending it as a private message, I'm sending it again to > >> the list. > >> That instruction seems to be correct. I don't think that there is any > >> new information I could give you. You have said that other Festival > >> voices are working for you, so I assume that there are no problems with > >> audio output. > >> Let's consider one of the nitech voices (awb) as an example. > >> You have not described the steps you have tried and the actual results > >> you have got (maybe there were any error messages), so I will describe > >> the whole procedure. > >> After downloading the voice unpack the archive: > >> tar xvf festvox_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts-2.1.tar.bz2 > >> This should create the lib subdirectory in the current directory. > >> Then you need to copy the files to the place where Festival expects to > >> find voices. > >> > >> cd lib/ > >> sudo cp hts.scm /usr/share/festival/ > >> sudo mkdir /usr/share/festival/voices/us > >> sudo cp -R voices/us/nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts/ > >> /usr/share/festival/voices/us/ > >> > >> Then run Festival to check the installation. This will start its > >> interactive shell. You can see the list of all available voices using > >> the following command: > >> > >> (voice.list) > >> > >> Is the voice you are installing present in this list? If it is, then you > >> can switch to it: > >> > >> (voice_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts) > >> > >> Then try to synthesize some text: > >> > >> (SayText "hello") > >> > >> You may type (quit) to exit the shell. > >> Sorry, I'm just repeating what has already been written in that > >> article,but if you get any errors during the process, please describe > >> those errors. > >> > >> Olga > >> > >> 26.07.2009 02:04, Angelo D. Marra пишет: > >>> Il giorno sab, 25/07/2009 alle 18.26 +0400, Olga Yakovleva ha scritto: > >>>> Hello Angelo, > >>>> I would like to help you, but there is not enough information in your > >>>> message, so I don't know what could be the problem. I'm also using > >>>> Festival on Ubuntu 9.04. You have asked only about hts voices. Do you > >>>> mean that other Festival voices work, but hts voices don't? > >>> yes this is the case > >>> > >>> i'm on a MSI 90U netbook. > >>> Originally there was winxp > >>> but as far as i know, netbook were made to work with linux. > >>> I do not know is it is using ALSA PULSEAUDIO or OSS, sorry. > >>> I perform update daily. > >>>> > >>>> Olga > >>>> > >>>> 25.07.2009 16:25, Angelo D. Marra пишет: > >>>>> can some one help me in istalling hts voices for festival? > >>>>> i triedhttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=751169 > >>>>> no results > >>>>> i'm on ubuntu 9.04 > >>>>> thanks > >>>>> Angelo > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: help with voices (works) but...
Dear Olga, an update: I tried the commands from teminal: it works. :--) ORCA does not, it plays only the original festival voices why? I can see all the voices in orca. but not all of them work. BTW i need a front end for festival able to play, pause, chsange speed and locus in text, more then orca. I need it to open TXT RTF PDF and DOC or ODT. files Any idea? Thanks very much. ANGELO Il giorno dom, 26/07/2009 alle 12.38 +0400, Olga Yakovleva ha scritto: > Hello Angelo, > Sorry for first sending it as a private message, I'm sending it again to > the list. > That instruction seems to be correct. I don't think that there is any > new information I could give you. You have said that other Festival > voices are working for you, so I assume that there are no problems with > audio output. > Let's consider one of the nitech voices (awb) as an example. > You have not described the steps you have tried and the actual results > you have got (maybe there were any error messages), so I will describe > the whole procedure. > After downloading the voice unpack the archive: > tar xvf festvox_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts-2.1.tar.bz2 > This should create the lib subdirectory in the current directory. > Then you need to copy the files to the place where Festival expects to > find voices. > > cd lib/ > sudo cp hts.scm /usr/share/festival/ > sudo mkdir /usr/share/festival/voices/us > sudo cp -R voices/us/nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts/ > /usr/share/festival/voices/us/ > > Then run Festival to check the installation. This will start its > interactive shell. You can see the list of all available voices using > the following command: > > (voice.list) > > Is the voice you are installing present in this list? If it is, then you > can switch to it: > > (voice_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts) > > Then try to synthesize some text: > > (SayText "hello") > > You may type (quit) to exit the shell. > Sorry, I'm just repeating what has already been written in that > article,but if you get any errors during the process, please describe > those errors. > > Olga > > 26.07.2009 02:04, Angelo D. Marra пишет: > > Il giorno sab, 25/07/2009 alle 18.26 +0400, Olga Yakovleva ha scritto: > >> Hello Angelo, > >> I would like to help you, but there is not enough information in your > >> message, so I don't know what could be the problem. I'm also using > >> Festival on Ubuntu 9.04. You have asked only about hts voices. Do you > >> mean that other Festival voices work, but hts voices don't? > > yes this is the case > > > > i'm on a MSI 90U netbook. > > Originally there was winxp > > but as far as i know, netbook were made to work with linux. > > I do not know is it is using ALSA PULSEAUDIO or OSS, sorry. > > I perform update daily. > >> > >> Olga > >> > >> 25.07.2009 16:25, Angelo D. Marra пишет: > >>> can some one help me in istalling hts voices for festival? > >>> i triedhttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=751169 > >>> no results > >>> i'm on ubuntu 9.04 > >>> thanks > >>> Angelo > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: help with voices
Il giorno sab, 25/07/2009 alle 18.26 +0400, Olga Yakovleva ha scritto: > Hello Angelo, > I would like to help you, but there is not enough information in your > message, so I don't know what could be the problem. I'm also using > Festival on Ubuntu 9.04. You have asked only about hts voices. Do you > mean that other Festival voices work, but hts voices don't? yes this is the case i'm on a MSI 90U netbook. Originally there was winxp but as far as i know, netbook were made to work with linux. I do not know is it is using ALSA PULSEAUDIO or OSS, sorry. I perform update daily. > > Olga > > 25.07.2009 16:25, Angelo D. Marra пишет: > > can some one help me in istalling hts voices for festival? > > i triedhttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=751169 > > no results > > i'm on ubuntu 9.04 > > thanks > > Angelo > > > > > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
help with voices
can some one help me in istalling hts voices for festival? i triedhttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=751169 no results i'm on ubuntu 9.04 thanks Angelo -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: SV: Festival voices
I mean the enhanced Nitech HTS voices I read the Howto with no result Il giorno lun, 20/07/2009 alle 18.00 +0200, mattias ha scritto: > Are it? > Hts = cal etc > > -Ursprungligt meddelande- > Från: ubuntu-accessibility-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com > [mailto:ubuntu-accessibility-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] För Samuel > Thibault > Skickat: den 20 juli 2009 17:55 > Till: Angelo D. Marra > Kopia: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > Ämne: Re: Festival voices > > > Angelo D. Marra, le Mon 20 Jul 2009 17:46:29 +0200, a écrit : > > I'm experiencing much difficoultis in installing HTS voices in > > festival could a .deb package be done? > > There is one already. > > Samuel > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Festival voices
Hi I'm experiencing much difficoultis in installing HTS voices in festival could a .deb package be done? I've aso an Idea. I think a GUI for festival should be nice Personally I need a simple TEXT editor with TTS and normal commands on the voice. Able to read TXT DOC ODF RTF PDF HTML and able to export MP3 and OGG I'm unable to program it, but maybe there is someone else Thanks Angelo -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
SAPI
I've been googoling without clear results: Can we have sapi 5 on ubuntu? Tnx Angelo -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Accessibility suggestions
What prevents me to cmigrete to linux is 1 I need to dictate 2 I need Text to speech as SAPI 3 I have a wonderful scanner (plusteck opticbook 3600 which is not supported but it is amazing in results for scanning books. I tried to use KDE TTS but it is very non-friendly. I use Dspeech in win: (http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/) I'd love to heve such a software for linux - on the idea of programming by voice: fantastic! I'd love to do that. some years ago, while looking for open hardware, I found a project on programming in natural ways or languages... I cannot find it any more. :-/ I have a disability and I study accessibility and inclusive policies, I've a lot of hints if needed. unfortunately, I'm unable to put hands-on-it as I'd never programmed more then macros in word an a bit of basic. cheers Angelo -- Angelo D. Marra Dottore di Ricerca in Diritto Civile Università "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria Avvocato in Reggio Calabria Via Pio XI, trav. Putortì, 36 89133 Reggio Calabria ITALIA Email: angelo.ma...@libero.it (valido anche per MSN) Skype: angelorc Abit: +39 (0)965.59 39 96 Mobile: +39 349.619 11 56 *** Responsabile della mailing-list Disability Studies Italy http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/disabilitystudies_italy/ Per iscriversi mandare una email a: disabilitystudies_italy-subscr...@yahoogroups.com -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Cygwin / Dragon / SAPI / Linux
Angelo Marra ha scritto: > Sorry it is not cler to me: can I use SAPI in LINUX ? > I have Ubuntu 9.04... > How about Dictation? > Thanks a lot > > > Sorry I did not put my name it is Angelo. -- Angelo D. Marra Dottore di Ricerca in Diritto Civile Università "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria Avvocato in Reggio Calabria Via Pio XI, trav. Putortì, 36 89133 Reggio Calabria ITALIA Email: angelo.ma...@libero.it (valido anche per MSN) Skype: angelorc Abit: +39 (0)965.59 39 96 Mobile: +39 349.619 11 56 *** Responsabile della mailing-list Disability Studies Italy http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/disabilitystudies_italy/ Per iscriversi mandare una email a: disabilitystudies_italy-subscr...@yahoogroups.com -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Cygwin / Dragon / SAPI / Linux
Sorry it is not cler to me: can I use SAPI in LINUX ? I have Ubuntu 9.04... How about Dictation? Thanks a lot Thomas Lloyd ha scritto: > Hi, > > Not sure if you have tried Cygwin but that does allow you to open both a > full gnome desktop and individual applications within windows and in > theory should allow you to control the system remotely over ssh via > Dragon. > > You can run the system full screen and you would not know that you were > even using a windows system. > > If you would like further information let me know as i have worked quite > extensively on such setups. > > As a side note i have been integrating the Microsoft SAPI interface into > Linux and have been mainly concentrating on text to speech but there is > the speech to text interface that I have tested but not yet done any > work on. I see that Dragon also has the potential to have such an > interface developed in the same fashion that I have created for SAPI. I > have quite a large amount of experience and as along as we can get the > bare minimum components of Dragon running under Wine your away. > > I could do with a sneak peak at the details on the Dragon scripting > interface to see if it supports COM automation under windows. If so it > will be more straight forward for me. > > I have a little bit of experience of the SAPI speech recognition system > and never rated it really, that is why i have left it alone till now. > Anyone who has experience of it can let me know otherwise. > > I would love someone with experience of the Vista SDK to come on board > and help me suck out the SAPI 5.3 components to see if we can get them > running under wine. Any volunteers? > > Tom > > > > > > > > -- Angelo D. Marra Dottore di Ricerca in Diritto Civile Università "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria Avvocato in Reggio Calabria Via Pio XI, trav. Putortì, 36 89133 Reggio Calabria ITALIA Email: angelo.ma...@libero.it (valido anche per MSN) Skype: angelorc Abit: +39 (0)965.59 39 96 Mobile: +39 349.619 11 56 *** Responsabile della mailing-list Disability Studies Italy http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/disabilitystudies_italy/ Per iscriversi mandare una email a: disabilitystudies_italy-subscr...@yahoogroups.com -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
[Fwd: Gnome voice control]
Messaggio Originale Oggetto:Gnome voice control Data: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:34:05 +0100 Da: Angelo Marra A: Anthony Sales Referenze: <49817a92.7000...@libero.it> <4981a273.8080...@libero.it> <4981be3b.8090...@libero.it> Do not take me as an idiot. how can I make it run? Thanks? PS what about improving text dictation? -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
dictation
Hi folks How hobout bulding a dictation Sofware for ubuntu? WE need it! QUOTE from the net: * TheMuso's blog <http://www.themuso.com/blogs/TheMuso> Voce Dictation <http://www.themuso.com/blogs/TheMusoUbuntu_Accessibility_Part_4_future_Ubuntu_Accessibility#comment-13> Submitted by NathanDBB (not verified) on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 05:05. Many people who use Linux are spending 10+ hours in front of their computers each day. Because of this, many of us have typing-related hand damage. While I don't expect to be able to use the command line with voice, I should be able to write email and use a mouse-grid. Ubuntu _needs_ voice dictation software. We have not even started down the LONG ROAD to having free voice software. We have a couple of speech-to-text engines, but we don't have a good large vocabulary to work with. This Wiki page talks about getting the collection of this vocabulary started, but NOTHING has happened. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SpeechRecognition As you point out, we need voice tools if we are going to get into mainstream corporate and government desktops. If we are are going to be an alternative to MS Vista in these markets, speech-to-text is MORE IMPORTANT then 3d desktops. I totally agree! What do tou think? Thanks Angelo -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
joining the Ubuntu Accessibility Community
Hi folks! I'm in Accessibility issues, I love Ubuntu philosophy.. I Can't be a developer but I'd love to help. I've a dream to make assistive technology available on Linux: Linux mast be better then ither OS as regards accessibility. I've a lkot of suggestions about it, do you think I can help? thanks Angelo -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Text to speech italian
Thjanks very much. I know festival already. is there anthing batter? Thans again Hynek Hanke ha scritto: > Angelo Marra napsal(a): >> I need to use GOOD voices (such as sapi5) in UBUNTU. >> Is there any ITALIAN and ENGLISH voice I can use? >> Which software can I use in Linux similar to DSpeech or Textalou > Hello Angelo, > > there are Italian voices in Festival: > > festlex-ifd - Italian support for Festival > festvox-italp16k - Italian female speaker for Festival > festvox-itapc16k - Italian male speaker for Festival > > Though not great, they are not so bad either. > > With regards, > Hynek Hanke > > > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Text to speech italian
Hi I need to use GOOD voices (such as sapi5) in UBUNTU. Is there any ITALIAN and ENGLISH voice I can use? Which software can I use in Linux similar to DSpeech or Textaloud? Thanks a lot Angelo -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
