Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-21 Thread Dennis Moore
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 03:44:56PM -0700, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:37:39AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. > > > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival > > > > Likew

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-21 Thread Dennis Moore
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 03:44:56PM -0700, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:37:39AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. > > > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival > > > > Like

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-18 Thread Julian Elischer
I haven't played with it for a few weeks, but I recall seeing a default volume somewhere. (in the documantation) I think you can set it in your init files but I can't go look right now. julian (it seemed ok to me but I didn't test it too much) On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Tue,

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-18 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:37:39AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. > > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival > > Likewise, based on your comments. > > Has anyone had any problems with the volume be

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-18 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:37:39AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival Likewise, based on your comments. Has anyone had any problems with the volume being far too low? The sound card on this box is a pcm

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-18 Thread Julian Elischer
I haven't played with it for a few weeks, but I recall seeing a default volume somewhere. (in the documantation) I think you can set it in your init files but I can't go look right now. julian (it seemed ok to me but I didn't test it too much) On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Tue,

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-18 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:37:39AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. > > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival > > Likewise, based on your comments. > > Has anyone had any problems with the volume b

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-18 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:37:39AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival Likewise, based on your comments. Has anyone had any problems with the volume being far too low? The sound card on this box is a pc

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-04 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
d...@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) writes: > Ville-Pertti Keinonen writes: > > I certainly don't expect any of the available voices to be able to > > pronounce Finnish names correctly, even with phonetic specifications. > If the software were *designed* to speak Finnish, I'd expect it

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Ville-Pertti Keinonen writes: > I certainly don't expect any of the available voices to be able to > pronounce Finnish names correctly, even with phonetic specifications. If the software were *designed* to speak Finnish, I'd expect it to cope with Finnish much better than it currently does with E

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-04 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) writes: > Ville-Pertti Keinonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I certainly don't expect any of the available voices to be able to > > pronounce Finnish names correctly, even with phonetic specifications. > If the software were *designed* to speak Finnish

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Ville-Pertti Keinonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I certainly don't expect any of the available voices to be able to > pronounce Finnish names correctly, even with phonetic specifications. If the software were *designed* to speak Finnish, I'd expect it to cope with Finnish much better than it c

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-04 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
w...@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) writes: > available for "home" computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use > SAM "the Software Automated Mouth" for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) Yes. It's almost surprising how little speech synthesis has improved, at least judging from the festival demo

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-04 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wes Peters) writes: > available for "home" computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use > SAM "the Software Automated Mouth" for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) Yes. It's almost surprising how little speech synthesis has improved, at least judging from the festival dem

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Gregory Sutter
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:17:05AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > Try Free B S D. Tricks like that used to work well with the simple ones > available for "home" computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use > SAM "the Software Automated Mouth" for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) No, but I use

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Gregory Sutter
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:17:05AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > Try Free B S D. Tricks like that used to work well with the simple ones > available for "home" computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use > SAM "the Software Automated Mouth" for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) No, but I us

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 03-Aug-99 Wes Peters wrote: > Try Free B S D. Tricks like that used to work well with the simple ones > available for "home" computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use > SAM "the Software Automated Mouth" for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) Personally I liked the speak: device for

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 03-Aug-99 Wes Peters wrote: > Try Free B S D. Tricks like that used to work well with the simple ones > available for "home" computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use > SAM "the Software Automated Mouth" for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) Personally I liked the speak: device for

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Wes Peters
Julian Elischer wrote: > > Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival > > it has support for FreeBSD already (seems to work fine) > > Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and > understand it a bit better. They seem to h

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Wes Peters
Julian Elischer wrote: > > Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival > > it has support for FreeBSD already (seems to work fine) > > Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and > understand it a bit better. They seem to

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and > understand it a bit better. They seem to have support for up to 4.0 in > some of the files, so maybe they actually have a freebsd user in their > group. > > It's big and(on my p90) a b

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and > understand it a bit better. They seem to have support for up to 4.0 in > some of the files, so maybe they actually have a freebsd user in their > group. > > It's big and(on my p90) a

BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival it has support for FreeBSD already (seems to work fine) Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and understand it a bit better. They seem to have support for up to 4.0 in some of th

BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival it has support for FreeBSD already (seems to work fine) Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and understand it a bit better. They seem to have support for up to 4.0 in some of t