Re: [Espeak-general] Modifying female English voice file problems

[<kr...@ao...>]

Thanks, Jonathan, for the quick reply!

Ahhh . . . it's making sense now. I wondered about the 'default' voice . .  
.

I will modify the +f2 voice variant and look for the echo line.

The asterisk is just 'midnight commander's' (mc) way of indicating an  
execuatble file.

My final question: do the settings in the voice file with variants such as  
-ven+f2'
override (or take precedence over) any settings done at command line  
level, i.e.:

  espeak -g 0.5 -ven+f2 -p65 -s170 'This is a multi-syllabic
adventure' -w /var/www/html/tmp/test.wav

Regards,
Andre




On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:18:29 -0400, Jonathan Duddington  
<jo...@ta...> wrote:

> On 01 Jul, <kr...@ao...> wrote:
>
>> I am new to Espeak. I'm having problems modifying English voice files,
>> specifically the default, 'en'.
>
> 'en is not the default voice.
> The default voice is taken from the file: espeak-data/voices/default.
> This is used if you do not specify a voice for eSpeak.  eg:
>
> espeak -v en "hello world"
>
> uses the "en" voice.
>
> espeak "hello world"
>
> uses the "default" voice.
>
>> As I understand it, I should edit the file, 'en', found in
>> '/usr/share/espeak-data/voices/data/'
>
> It's in espeak-data/voices/en
>
>>      espeak -g 0.5 -ven+f2 -p65 -s170 'This is a multi-syllabic
>> adventure' -w /var/www/html/tmp/test.wav
>
> That will use the voice "en" and the voice variant "f2".  The voice
> variant is taken from the directory: espeak-data/voices/!v
>
> -ven+f2
>
> Takes the voice file: espeak-data/voices/en/en  and then applies the
> attributes which are in the voice variant file: espeak-data/voices/!v/f2
>
> If you want to try to improve the female voice, or make other voice
> variants, then use or modify voice variants in espeak-data/voices/!v or
> add new voice variants there.
>
> Only change language voices for attributes which are specific to that
> language.  More general variations such as female, echo, whisper, etc
> should be done in a voice variant file in espeak-data/voices/!v which
> can then be applied to any language.
>
>> What I'm trying to accomplish is to use a female English voice, but
>> eliminate or lessen the very 'watery' echo in this voice.
>
> The "f2" variants includes an "echo" attribute, so perhaps you want to
> remove that line.
>
>> Now, looking at this, I wonder whether the *en file is even used, due
>> to the
>
> I don't understand what is the asterisk in "*en".
>
>
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