Re: [gnuspeech-contact] Quickstart for the latest Gnuspeech?

[Advrk Aplmrkt]

Thanks for the links, and I agree a proper man page or quickstart
guide would be super useful for end users! (and not just speech
synthesis researchers)

I checked out the YouTube videos, and I confess it was hard for me to
understand what Gnuspeech was saying... Is there a reason why it
doesn't sound nearly as natural as, say, Siri yet???

I think Gnuspeech is a great project, and really appreciate the
development effort. I just wish it can be a real Free Software Siri
text-to-speech killer! Thanks.

On 28/10/2015, David Hill <address@hidden> wrote:
> I hope to create a proper man page and add it fairly soon. It is clearly
> necessary.
>
> You may be interested to listen to:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUrODiSkWk8&feature=youtu.be
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkwS3_gk69w
>
> and
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=png5B836yT4
>
> The last item provides a comparison of gnuspeech and natural speech,
> repeated three times (the examples are all repeated three times, in fact).
>
> All the artificial speech samples were created by gnuspeech from normally
> punctuated plain text with no adjustments. The first set of samples were
> created from the command line input option of gnuspeechsa without any change
> in the initial options, as described in Appendix D of the Gnuspeech manual.
> The second and third items were generated from Monet using the gnuspeech
> program suite that runs on Mac OS X.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> david
>
> --------
> David Hill
> address@hidden
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuspeech/
> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuspeech
> https://savannah.gnu.org/users/davidhill
> --------
> Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures
> (Tao Te Ching #67)
> ---------
>
> On Oct 26, 2015, at 10:23 50AM, Advrk Aplmrkt wrote:
>
>> Yes, it works now. But after hearing the defaults it sounds like lots
>> of tweaking to the configuration is need to make the voice sound more
>> real? Right now it sounds very funny, and not nearly as good as, say,
>> Siri. Let me know if you have any tips for optimising the voice.
>>
>> Thanks for the instructions!
>>
>> On 23/10/2015, Marcelo Y. Matuda <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> To synthesize a short text:
>>>
>>> ./gnuspeech_sa -c ../gnuspeechsa-0.1.5/data/en/ -p param.txt \
>>>   -o out.wav "This is a test."
>>>
>>> To synthesize from a text file:
>>>
>>> ./gnuspeech_sa -c ../gnuspeechsa-0.1.5/data/en/ -i input.txt \
>>>   -p param.txt -o out.wav
>>>
>>> To test another voice, change the parameter voice_name in
>>> ../gnuspeechsa-0.1.5/data/en/trm_control_model.config.
>>>
>>> You can change other parameters in that file, for example tempo and
>>> pitch_offset.
>>>
>>> Try this in voice_male.config:
>>> vocal_tract_length = 22.0
>>> reference_glottal_pitch = -20.0
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Marcelo
>>>
>>> On 10/21/2015 01:28 PM, David Hill wrote:
>>>> As a first step, check out what is written in Appendix D of the Monet
>>>> Manual concerning producing speech from gnuspeechsa.
>>>>
>>>> gnuspeechsa is a command-line program, and you should be able to
>>>> produce
>>>> speech by entering an appropriate command, which will result in a sound
>>>> file in the location you specify which you can play. For example, if
>>>> you
>>>> are in the directory into which gnuspeechsa has been compiled, the
>>>> command would be:
>>>>
>>>> ./gnuspeechsa -v -c ../../data/en -p trm_param_file.txt -o
>>>> do-you-happen.wav "Do you happen to know by chance what time it is?"
>>>>
>>>> (Note that the manual has unfortunately got a misprint for this command
>>>> example, by inserting a "\_" in gnuspeechsa.)
>>>>
>>>> There's a recording on YouTube of the resulting speech output that is
>>>> produced, repeated three times at:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUrODiSkWk8&feature=youtu.be
>>>>
>>>> I have also passed a copy of your email to the contributor responsible
>>>> for gnuspeechsa. He has had to drop  participation in GNU project for
>>>> now, in order to take time out for other things, but may be able to
>>>> make
>>>> some helpful comments which I can pass on to you.
>>>>
>>>> In GNU/Linux applications users may use Gnuspeechsa for output from an
>>>> application by using Speech-dispatcher:
>>>>
>>>> YELAVICH, LUKE , JAN BUCHAL, TOMAS CERHA, HYNEK HANKE, MILAN ZAMAZAL,
>>>> C.M. BRANNON, WILLIAM HUBBS, ANDREI KHOLODNY (undated). Speech
>>>> Dispatcher, http://devel.freebsoft.org/speechd, accessed 2015-07-24.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, the release manuals are quite technical, but the technology
>>>> underlying synthetic speech is not simple. You can learn a lot by
>>>> studying the background matyerial in the manuals, as well as some of
>>>> the
>>>> papers that are linked.
>>>>
>>>> Happy hacking!
>>>>
>>>> david
>>>> --------
>>>> David Hill
>>>> address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>
>>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuspeech/
>>>> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuspeech
>>>> https://savannah.gnu.org/users/davidhill
>>>> --------
>>>> Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest
>>>> treasures  (Tao Te Ching #67)
>>>> ---------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 21, 2015, at 5:58 49AM, Advrk Aplmrkt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just read about the latest release of Gnuspeech, and am eager to
>>>>> take it for a spin. I'm not a speech synthesis researcher, I just like
>>>>> to easily do text to speech with Free Software.
>>>>>
>>>>> I found the Gnuspeech Monet Manual 0.9 and the Gnuspeech TRAcT Manual
>>>>> 0.9, but they look very dense and technical. I've got gnuspeech-sa
>>>>> compiled and installed on my Fedora Linux system, but I have no idea
>>>>> how to run it by feeding it either a .txt file or just direct input of
>>>>> text from the command line. It seems to ask for some sort of
>>>>> configuration file?
>>>>>
>>>>> What should I do to just get it to start speaking text? Is there a
>>>>> quickstart guide or tutorial? Or maybe some preset "voices" I can pick
>>>>> from? Thanks!!
>>
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