Hi Owen and all, Have you considered using Flite rather than Festival? Flite is much smaller, much more responsive, and should be useable through the same interface. Saqib -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Owen Patrick Smith Sent: 02 April 2003 21:48 To: Jacob Schmude Cc: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: A Second Festival Module for Speakup Ok we've figured out the problems. The delay is caused by the fact that we're sending the data to festival one word at a time so that if the shutup character is recieved we can shutup the synth at the end of the current word. However this causes festival to delay for a fairly large amount of time between each word because festival thinks that each word is a separate statement. We think that the delay between statements is configurable at run-time and are going to e-mail Fesstivals dev team to ask how to change it. After that a small change to our middleware program should fix the issue, I'll let you know when its been delt with. As for the shutup function it works for us. However please note that the keymap that is on the website appears to be outdated. The CVS Speakup shutup key is (with numlock ON) keypad-minus. Please let us know if that was what you were using or if using keypad-minus fixes the problem. HtH Owen Smith ender3rd at wpi.edu On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hi > My system specs are as follows: > AMD Athlon XP2600, 2.133ghz > Realtek ALC-650 audio chip (built into the motherboard) > 80G hd with 8meg cache > Those are the only specs I could think of that would help. As for the > delay, it's just that, a delay of about a second between each word. > Don't think this has to do with my computer speed (I've got plenty of > that). Festival itself, when I use it without middleware (I.e. just type > some text into it) doesn't exhibit the delay. Nor does it exhibit a > delay when I use the festival_client program which comes with it. So the > problem, near as I can tell, is centered on the module or the middleware > program, or some interaction of the two. > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
