I think the first part of my subject was well answered last week: "making flite more responsive", now how can I improve it's pronunciation? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:03 AM Subject: Re: Making flite more responsive and improving its pronounciation > Hi. > > I came up with those parms by reading the DECtalk manual and > experimenting. They will work for Paul and Betty, but make other voices > sound really bad. As usual for me, I didn't document my final result. > also, I just realized I pasted the parms from my weather script instead > of my dtk-generic.conf file. > > The [:dv ap 130] and the [:ra 350] set pitch and rate to hard coded > values. You don't want those for speech-dispatcher. > > The 2 parms that are important are: > > [:dv ri 90 sm 0][:pe -380] > > The [:pe -380] option sets the "period pause" to the shortest value. > Basically, it makes the synth pause as little as possible between > sentences or lists where items end with a period. > The speakup driver for the DECtalk express also uses this value. > > I went back and looked at the docs again, and realized it will probably > be easier for you to read them about the [:dv ri 90 sm 0] options. They > change basic values of the voice. The doc explains it better than I > could. For the paul and betty voices, it makes them mumble less. > I downloaded the docs from the Fonix web site. They are pdf files. > > Your pitch problem is probably because the default pitch when speakup > starts with a software synth is 5. I've found DECtalk software sounds > best at a pitch of 2 or 3. Flite and festival seem to sound good at > pitch 5, just not the DECtalk. > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 01:23:26PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > > Can you explain these parms a bit? Curious minds want to know. How > > did you come by the particular numeric values you did? > > > > One other observation I'm noticing with DECtalk; When > > speech-dispatcher first says "Software synth found," the DEC is at > > something like Double pitch or some such. I have to set a lower pitch > > to get the voice to sound right for the rest of the session. I'm > > running Slackware 10.1 with the default compiler gcc 3.3.4. This > > sounds like a problem reported back with earlier versions of Redhat if > > I recall. Any ideas about the high pitch deal? > > > > Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
