Re: [misterhouse-users] Introduction and a quick question or two...

[Sean W. <li...@su...>]

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>First question - What's the general consensus on speech engines and voice
>recognition?  (Keeping in mind my Linux destination...)  It seems that ViaVoice has
>all but disappeared for Linux.  Is Festival the way to go?
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My personal opinion is Festival for speech and Sphinx2 for VR. Both by 
the same group. I found them to be the easiest to install and absolutely 
configurable. Problem with the configurability is that brings 
complexity. I'm learning to speak with Lisp. ;) I just got my laptop 
back from service and can resume work on my Sphinx2/proxy voice 
implementation. I just spent a couple hours rewriting a few pieces of 
code and it seems I am making quite some headway. Once I get this done, 
I'll recommend Sphinx2 as the way to go for VR and Linux.

On my system Festival and Sphinx2 were installed with one command: 
"emerge festival Sphinx2" as I'm running Gentoo Linux. Very easy. On 
that same line, I have a .ebuild for misterhouse done now. It works if 
anyone wants to try it out. One command installs misterhouse.

>Second, in the code/common directory there are several scripts for playing hourly
>chimes.  They both reference the need to download a file (BigBenSounds.zip IIRC)  but
>the link is no longer valid.  A Google search turned up nothing.  Does anyone know of
>where this sound file(s) can be obtained?
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Yup, link bad. Lots of people have the sounds and could probably figure 
out how to get them to you. I can't seem to find them right now on any 
of my systems.

>That's all for now, but since I'm on a steep learning curve, I'm sure to have more
>questions...
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>Regards,
>-John
>Seattle, WA
>
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