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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: voice UI, step 1 committed (talking menus)Re: voice UI, step 1 committed (talking menus)
From: [IDC]Dragon <idc-dragon_at_gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:29:38 +0100 (MET) > Hey Jörg, > Are you the only person responsible for the voice menus, or has someone > been working with you? I'm the sole person to blame. Brian Wolven made a script to "walk" the directory tree and generate talkbox directory name clips using the Microsoft built-in TTS engine. This will come into play when I've integrated the "classic" talkbox feature, too. (Which is planned and internally prepared.) Rocker inspired the whole thing with his posting a month ago: http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2004-02/0498.shtml I then started this thread: http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2004-02/0565.shtml My search for a human speaker brought me back to PC-based TTS, which is more mature than I originally thought. So this is quite useable, we don't need to send somebody to a recording studio over and over again, plus painfully cut hundreds of clips. > I noticed that in the settings there are no values read, like volume, or > contrast settings. > Do you plan on putting in some numbers for this? Yes, this is work in progress. I'm very close, please expect it for the next days. > Also, the voice, MSTTS Mary is quite clear, but I was wondering if you > could > use some AT&T recordings, especially the AT&T voice, Crystal. > Crystal sounds quite lovely. > I have always thought that although quite intelligible, Mary sounds like a > bitch. We/you can use whatever voice you like. It was just a first shot. I'm aware of the nice AT&T voices, but don't have them since they're not free. We could automatedly "harvest" clips from their interactive web demo, if somebody looks into that script... http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/ Is the AT&T stuff integrated in the Microsoft speach engine, once purchased and installed? That would make it very easy for us to use from own applications/scripts. Jörg -- +++ NEU bei GMX und erstmalig in Deutschland: TÜV-geprüfter Virenschutz +++ 100% Virenerkennung nach Wildlist. Infos: http://www.gmx.net/virenschutz _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockboxReceived on 2004-03-19 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |