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#1245 festival song output is completely undocumented
Originally created by: *anonymous
Originally created by: percival.music.ca@gmail.com
~/src/lilypond/Documentation$ git grep festival
es/web/news.itexi:singing support through festival contributed by Milan Zamazal.
web/news.itexi:singing support through festival contributed by Milan Zamazal.
That doesn't tell me much.
1. investigate "festival". It seems to have something to do with speech stuff.
2. see if *they* have any docs for lilypond singing support
3. if not, hunt down this Milan person and get him to tell you how to do it
4. write docs for this.
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Originally posted by: markpole...@gmail.com
seems pretty well documented here:
http://www.freebsoft.org/singing-computer
Originally posted by: percival.music.ca@gmail.com
I noticed that page, but a quick scan doesn't tell me what to do with the .xml file. I mean, I tried
festival song-basic.xml
but got some error or other. Maybe it's as simple as adding an -i filename.xml option; maybe I needed to install some other package... point is, I don't know, and nothing in the lilypond docs tell me how to do it, or even give me a link to that site.
That page -- assuming it's up-to-date; it mentions CVS, which seems a bit odd for a modern project -- will certainly help somebody write documentation for this in the lilypond manual(s).
This isn't a high-priority item, and in some ways I hope that experienced doc writers don't work on it -- this would make an ideal "training" item for anybody wanting to learn how to work on docs. That said, I'm actually personally interested in singing voice synthesis driven by lilypond, so I certainly wouldn't turn away any patches for this! :)
Originally posted by: pkx1...@hotmail.com
Here are the latest instructions for 'singing computer' - this is a separate bit of software that requires Festival + LilyPond - that I found.
http://cvs.freebsoft.org/repository/singing-computer/README?revision=1.14&view=markup
Note the last version of singing computer is 4+ years old and requires compiling (cannot find an installer). The festival.ly file on Milan's site is the same as in git except for the \version which is '2.12.0' in git and '2.7.40' on his site.
The latest version of Festival is found here:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
The Festival Speech Synthesis System version 2.1
and Edinburgh Speech Tools Library version 2.1
November 2010
I'll ping someoneon the Festival Mailing list and ask if anyone has got it working with LilyPond recently and I'll also try to contact Milan.
Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com
Hello,
I never did get a reply from Milan (the creator of festival) and I subscribed to the mailing list too and asked a few times but again had no answer.
James
Originally posted by: percival.music.ca@gmail.com
ok, well, thanks for trying! At least we now have a "paper trail" of attempting to do the right thing, so if anybody complains about this in the future, we can point to here.
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Originally posted by: reinhold...@gmail.com
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Summary: festival song output is completely undocumented
Originally posted by: tuxs...@googlemail.com
In the attached file you can find a summary of the festival output.
Kind regards.
Sonja Busch
Hamburg, Germany
Originally posted by: tuxs...@googlemail.com
Demo on the interaction: midi-file > lilypond > playable xml-file
Originally posted by: gra...@percival-music.ca
quote from Sonja,
Sorry, this was a mistake. I should have quoted the animation:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xr3gnr_tuxical-the-fate-of-a-poor-man_creation
with 6 pages of howto concerning lilypond/festival at the end of the video.
That animation link is dead. All we have is the two PDF files. The first of those is not related to LilyPond and just contains a basic sketch of an input file for festival.