---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 19:32:52 +1000 From: Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Cepstral Speech Server for Emacspeak 20. Resent-Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 05:33:00 -0400 (EDT) I have added an updated version of my Cepstral Theta speech server for Emacspeak 20 to my web page. Its working for me, so should work (though I rushed it a bit!). I've also included a patched version of the tcldtk.c file for the software dectalk which will work with version 5.0 of the dectalk software from fonix (though tis is not installed by the install script). At this point, the Cepstral server seems a bit more stable than the dectalk 5.0 one and I find it a bit easier to understand. However, the dectalk is more feature rich (e.g. split caps support, tones, wider range of voices and all/some/none punctuation support etc). The main problem I'm finding with the dectalk server is that when there is no speech, the cpu load goes up to 100%. Ironically, it drops down to nearly nothing when it is speaking!). When I get time, I will attempt to track down problems with the dectalk server (I've now got the manuals) and I'll try to improve support for the cepstral server. The url for the tar file is http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~tcross There are two links - one for the 19.x version of emacspeak and one for the new version 20. I recommend going with the one for emacspeak 20 (What, you haven't upgraded yet?) As usual, any problems, let me know. Tim