From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Oct 20 11:50:50 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:50:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N0JnF-0006lp-RL for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:50:49 -0700 Received: from claranet-outbound-smtp04.uk.clara.net ([195.8.89.37]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N0JnB-0006lI-Hj for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:50:49 -0700 Received: from adsl-solo-80-168-225-69.claranet.co.uk ([80.168.225.69]:1097 helo=pcr) by relay04.mail.eu.clara.net (relay.clara.net [213.253.3.44]:1025) with smtp id 1N0Jn3-0002M6-Fj (Exim 4.69) for lojban-list@lojban.org (return-path ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:50:38 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Jonathan Duddington To: lojban-list@lojban.org Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:49:24 +0100 Subject: [lojban] Re: Using TTS to create lojbanic spoken text Message-ID: <50ad53d6aejsd@clara.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5715b9300910201028p1855f17ej62c500b83ae4f75e@mail.gmail.com> References: <23298cb40910190014p69a967aegc5d620e752c0964e@mail.gmail.com> <50acc06e47jsd@clara.co.uk> <5715b9300910190943i3fad47f5i554d603bf736f66c@mail.gmail.com> <96f789a60910200937x1cea2b86v1ae93cdbe8caab8c@mail.gmail.com> <5715b9300910201028p1855f17ej62c500b83ae4f75e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Pluto/3.04e (RISC-OS/4.02) POPstar/2.02 Content-Type: text/plain X-archive-position: 16369 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jsd@clara.co.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On 20 Oct, Luke Bergen wrote: > apparently there are a "variants" on the voices. maybe I'll have to > play with some of them to try to get something more natural sounding. Yes, the female variant is not a good choice. eSpeak makes a "female" voice from the male voice by just increasing the pitch and adjusting the speech formants. If you are using the development version of eSpeak from: http://espeak.sf.net/test/latest.html try the variant "m7". espeak -v jbo+m7 To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.