Re: [Svxlink-devel] Language switching at runtime
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From: Gustavo C. <gus...@gm...> - 2011-10-17 16:20:58
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Hi Tobias, Thanks for your answer and for testing my files. Yes, as you said, I recorded the voices some time ago (I tink around the end of 2009) and the sounds files have changed since that time. Sorry for the file litmit size, I realized that when I received an email from sourceforge saying so. I've been in contact with Adi and Martin about this issue and I want to translate the .txt files used to synthetise the sound files. I understand the reasons to switch from human to synthetised voices and I agree with them. I'm installing espeak to test my translated files but for the moment I'm quite busy with work and family stuff... If anyone wants to try my (incomplete) set of spanish voices please email me and I will attach the files via email. Also if anyone can host the files in an svxlink related site it's ok. Thanks again, regards. Gustavo Conrad - LU8WFY 2011/10/16 Tobias Blomberg <sm...@us...> > On Saturday 01 October 2011 21.30.48 Gustavo Conrad wrote: > > Hi Adi > > > > Sorry for the long delay. I want to restart my work on the spanish > > sounds for svxlink. Attached you will find the sounds recorded with my > > own voice. I started to investigate about espeak and mbrola but i think > > i'm not ready to start yet. I will get in touch soon. > > 73! > > Hi Gustavo! > > Your mail did not reach the mailing list because it was too big. Maximum > allowed size is 100k but I guess you have figured that out by now. > > I briefly tested your sound pack. It's a good start but there were sounds > missing or not translated. You had used my old voice files as a base. The > default sound pack for SvxLink now use the Heather synthesizer voice from > Acapela: > > https://acapela-box.com/AcaBox/index.php > > There are Spanish voices here as well but unfortunately it costs money to > generate sound clips. > > There were a couple of reasons why I switched from using my own voice to > the > synthesized voice. One reason was that my English will never be perfect. > Heather is better. Another reason was that it will be easier for other > people > to extend SvxLink, maybe generating their own sound clips and it will sound > the same as if I generated them. > > With that said, of course you can use your own voice to create a language > pack. That is perfectly fine if you want to go that way. > > 73's de SM0SVX / Tobias > > > > > > Gustavo - LU8WFY > > > > > > 2010/7/7 Adi Bier <dl...@gm...> > > > > > ** > > > Gustavo Conrad schrieb: > > > > > > Hi, I´ve recorded using my own voice the full set of standard sound > > > files (not including metarinfo), in spanish language. They're not > > > studio quality but I think they're quite good. The work was done with > > > audacity to record, filter and normalize the captured audio. > > > If this is of interest to the project I will send them happily. > > > 73! > > > > > > Hi Gustavo, > > > > > > it's a lot of work, I really know it because I had done it a couple of > > > months ago before I went back to the computer voices ;-) > > > The reason for me were my efforts in the metar module and the fast > > > changes in it during this development with many changes, partially in > > > minutes. Ok, I accept that this is not interesting for everyone but the > > > development of SvxLink doesn't stop and new modules/logics and other > > > extensions will be add, so there is a need to get more or probably > > > changed announcements. It becomes difficult to keep them up-to-date > with > > > (always the same) natural voices, I think it's easier to have a txt- > > > file that can be translated into a (raw|wav)-file by a TTS, at least > > > making the first steps with the new add-ons. > > > > > > Do you see chances for a creation of the txt-files too, containing the > > > native Spanish language, according to the the other language txt-files > > > that are already available? > > > So the people can decide which way they will go, the natural way with > > > probably your voice on their link/repeater or the develop-(trunk) way, > > > with native txt-files > > > I think both of them are important. > > > > > > It would be really nice if you could provide your sounds for download, > > > then Martin (DF1AMB) and me can check the language switching here at > > > db0wsf with a third language. > > > > > > Thank you in advance, > > > > > > 73's de Adi, DL1HRC > > > > > > Gustavo Conrad > > > > > > LU8WFY > > > > > > 2010/7/6 Martin Burkhardt <df...@t-...> <df...@t-...>: > > > Hi Nils, > > > > > > Am Tuesday 06 July 2010 15:55:17 schrieb Nils Prause: > > > Hello Martin, > > > > > > Martin Burkhardt wrote: > > > Is here anyone who is not using the english soundfiles? > > > > > > > > > Yes, sir. :-) I've been creating German language files (using TTS > > > "Steffi" > > > > > > by L&H) and Logics since 2007. > > > > > > Carefull Nils the Steffi TTS is not free. Have a look at the license > and > > > you > > > > > > will see so it is not possible to use them on such a system like > svxlink > > > worldwide. If you bought the Seffi voice you are free to use it for > your > > > own stuff like screen reading for blind poeple or so. > > > > > > If yes and you want your soundfiles inculded to the sound > > > > > > archive please mail them to me. And include your events.d directory > also. > > > > > > I know that you've also created a German language pack. Maybe we could > > > > > > compare it and go on working on the same stuff. > > > > > > No offence but I had to change the tcls a little bit to get the online > > > > > > switching to work without restarting the whole svx event handler. This > > > issue was discussed about 3 months ago here on the list. But this is > the > > > reason I think our systems maybe incompatible. But it would be nice to > > > see some other work. Please send also the text files you used to create > > > the speech files. -- > > > 73 de Martin, DF1AMB > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct > _______________________________________________ > Svxlink-devel mailing list > Svx...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/svxlink-devel > |