[lojban-beginners] Re: espeak text to speach ; feedback needed

["Michael Turniansky" <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Stephen Pollei
<stephen.pollei@gmail.com> 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.
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> Chris done is hosting the files at http://www.jbotcan.org/jbo_test/
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> 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.
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> jbo_test.txt    2008-Aug-28 00:52:07    6.3K
> This is a test file used to generate the below sample sound files.
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> 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
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> 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 .
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> http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
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