hey kerry? what's the betting he used monolog? hahaha a doubletalk clone basicly. Shaun.. "We realise we have a problem with communication. However, we're not going to discuss it with our staff." EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO ID: blindman01_2000 IRC NICK/SERVER: |3|1ndm4n on #aussiefriends on www.jong.com:6667 On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Kerry Hoath wrote: > You're over symplifying here. Good text to speech with real speech > synthesis for example rsynth requires a fair bit of floating point to achieve. > It would run a tad slugishly on my 486dx/33 with 80% cpu usage. > I'd hardly call this minimal cpu cycles. > What text to speech used to run on your 386? sbtalker? That's got more > than one patent on it and we can't use their technology even if they would > give it to us. > > Yes esound can mix audio streams but now we need to wait not only for the sound > drivers to load but we'd better hope esound initializes properly or we get no speech. > Note that mixing channels in software with esound is expensive cpu-wise, and > we're allready burning cycles in kernel space for speakup and for the synthesis. > Also note that we need to retain some degree of responsiveness with this system; how long > is it going to take when we hit the shut up key for all the buffers to empty or for outgoing > speech to be killed? Do we have a synthesis buffer that must also be flushed? > > I'm one of the first ones to say I want software speech for speakup one day, but let's firstly > get in kernel speech (tuxtalk) working so we have a > small free speech engine available for our use. > Using IBM Viavoice isn't an option for everyone since there are lisencing restrictions. > > Regards, Kerry. > On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 11:21:30PM +1200, Bruce Kingsbury wrote: > > > > > > 1: aAs far as I'm aware, software synthesys ties up a great deal of system > > > > resources including the sound card unless of course you run a sb-live. > > > > How much is "a great deal" exactly..? software speech was possible on my > > old 386 and even the most low-end pentium runs 50 times the speed of that! > > tts takes only a tiny fraction of the CPU power required for speech > > recongition or a winmodem. > > > > > Geoff pointed out that you can get a card with multiple streams. There are > > > a number able to do this. But there are other considerations. > > > > Not a consideration at all, 'esd' will happily mix as many different > > audio streams as you want and play them all through a simple SB16 or > > onboard ES chip.. just make your TTS output through esd rather than > > direct to /dev/dsp > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > -- > Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net > alternatives: kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au > ICQ UIN: 8226547 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
