From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 28 09:14:11 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KYk8R-0005Tq-35 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:14:11 -0700 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.246]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KYk8J-0005TQ-Ma for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:14:10 -0700 Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so404983rvf.46 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:14:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=PPQkE/BAzWhuAdxoFwdXOeCWk+2K2FMyHIyn4YBIiJg=; b=cni/Sh00VpEm4kHdQzMwA78JZKSAp8gSTOP2sFbMS8q1eeFq4MbzxGqdxxp2TtVu9y llZy2+a8sh53BRMQWvKDWr8e5O9FR3wKh/AOf2BtI+bxZs2GA6pISAY+zFJIe3NhU/dA qgHvwP6NU95HvmktNlfhA3CnCNKKoioy+ZCHE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=j80m5pwVx7Uaw8RgXsyCiOqK0CCc9fozbsxz2hEzZMe2df1uqVV69K3cXdYBstlPWv +SO2yEq2jREltBqXvHkGhTnHJm+TSCJGMmF8zGXOJPHnPK6A0xkhUNZNhYaIuNUXMiBj 59mAs6/9Uwsa73mIorXzqXDWn35H/CPF0QdP0= Received: by 10.141.163.12 with SMTP id q12mr835619rvo.260.1219940041762; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.179.16 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <96f789a60808280914g7dbcc563wee0fc1e572aa1dd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:14:01 -0400 From: "Michael Turniansky" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: espeak text to speach ; feedback needed In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / Ummm.. wow! That sounds like a 1960s style "computer breaking down" sci-fi sequence! It was really too fast to say for sure if there were faults.... Onne impression I got, though was that it wasn't honoring the pauses at periods. --gejyspa X-archive-position: 851 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mturniansky@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Stephen Pollei wrote: > I worked on the rules for espeak and have gotten to the point where I > need more outside help to determine if there are any faults that need > correction before I send it upstream. > > Chris done is hosting the files at http://www.jbotcan.org/jbo_test/ > > jbo_dictsource-20080827.tar.gz 2008-Aug-28 00:53:13 5.0K > this has my modified jbo_list and jbo_rules > you need to do a `speak --compile=jbo` to have the changes take effect. > > jbo_test.txt 2008-Aug-28 00:52:07 6.3K > This is a test file used to generate the below sample sound files. > > jbo_test.mp3 2008-Aug-28 01:04:46 3.1M > jbo_test.spx 2008-Aug-28 00:53:06 1.9M > jbo_test.wav 2008-Aug-28 00:53:05 17.4M > > they were generated from `speak -f jbo_test.txt -v jbo -w > jbo_test.wav` and then the spx and mp3 were compressed from that. > > It sounds a bit fast as the default is around 170 words per minute. > `speak -f jbo_test.txt -v jbo -w jbo_test.wav -s 90` might be better > at only about 90 words per minute. > > If you know how lojban is suppose to sound please give feedback. > And thank you . > > http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ > > > >