Cepstral Voice Module

[Storm Dragon]

Hi,
I probably wouldn't use cepstral with Orca unless it were a really long
text document and I had a lot of time to read it lol. The thing is, I am
hoping that speech-dispatcher becomes the universal speech provider for
Linux of all flavors. So, this means supporting voices that sighted
people are likely to use too. Although some will use voices like Espeak,
a lot will prefer voices like Cepstral or Neospeech which is also said
to work in Linux although I don't know for sure. So, if you get the
chance to write better support for Cepstral, please do. It's probably
not the most important thing by a long shot, but it does need doing some
time. Also, I found out that Cepstral voices only work in a system using
PulseAudio if you use the alsa-oss package:
aoss swift "hello"
Thanks
Storm


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On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 11:27 -0700, Jacob Schmude wrote:

> Hi
> I don't believe there is a Cepstral module at least not one that links
> to Cepstral directly. This is something I've been considering writing
> but, all in all, I don't find the Cepstral voices' responsiveness to be
> up to the level for screen reading so I haven't done it yet.
> The current Cepstral module is just an interface to the swift command
> via the sd_generic module. You might need to edit this conf file
> (~/.speech-dispatcher/conf/modules/swift-generic.conf) and adjust the
> command and voices to your setup. Once that's done, you'll need to edit
> your speechd.conf and uncomment the line to add the swift-generic
> module. Note though that it has no indexing support so there will be a
> lot of things, particularly in Orca, that don't behave properly.
> It is also possible to use the Cepstral voices through Festival, but
> this is extremely slow as you get Festival's latency on top of
> Cepstral's.
> 
> On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 13:17 -0500, Storm Dragon wrote:
> > Hi,
> > when I compile and install speech-dispatcher Cepstral voices don't
> > seem to work. I have them working on a 9.10 system with pulseaudio
> > removed and the version of speech-dispatcher installed from the
> > repository in 9.10, 0.6.7. Is there something that has to be done
> > during the compilation for Cepstral to work, or is it code related?
> > Thanks
> > Storm
> > 
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