Re: [misterhouse-users] Speech issues (Linux/Festival)

[<Rob...@fr...>]

Hello,

in near future I'll be migrating to Linux. Flite convinced me that it is a good
choice, now I'm looking for speech recognition also. Especially I'm searching for
some system, that would feature building speech dialogs (possibly in easy way -
maybe even graphically) and could manage multi channel speech dialogs (my custom
home automation system will stream audio in/out of each room - hey one day Audrey
will do the same) - so speech communication would be really nice feature in user
friendly home.

So maybe Geoff can describe possibilities of CMU in this field in connection with
flite. Maybe some achievements from "Communicator" project will be released by
that time.

In windows CSLU Speech Toolkit could offer similar functionality, but Linux is
taking it's place on my "misterhouse".

"Mandrake (Geoff Harrison)" je napisal:

> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:32:32PM +0100, Ron Klinkien wrote:
> > Same here,
> >
> > I use:
> > set $VTxt_festival qq[(utt.save.wave (utt.synth (Utterance Text
> > "$parms{text}"))
> > "/mh/www/http_server.wav" 'riff)];
> >
> > Been busy searching Festivals/Speechtools docs to find some sort of hook but
> > found nothing yet. I'm running FreeBSD 4.4 on a PII 350Mhz with 160Mb
> > memory.
> >
> > Anybody have experience with Festival 1.4.2, Is it faster than 1.4.1?
>
> you'll want to upgrade for various other reasons besides being faster...
> although people may want to consider beginning to migrate to using flite,
> which has a runtime library you can link into your applications...
> http://www.cmuflite.org
>
> we'll be releasing some high quality synthesis voices to run under festival
> and flite on a non-commercial basis soon (I know I've said that a million
> times, but I mean it)  you can check out some (old and crufty) demo wav files
> here:
> http://mandrake.net/demo_voice.wav
> http://mandrake.net/demo_2.wav
> http://mandrake.net/demo_3.wav
> http://mandrake.net/demo_4.wav
>
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