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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Recorded voicefont file available (alpha)Re: Recorded voicefont file available (alpha)
From: Christi Scarborough <christi_at_chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 22:27:18 +0100 [IDC]Dragon wrote: > Yes, the file works. What a job, to record all these clipsy steady and > straight, and trim them. Do you have any tool which assists this? I used Audacity for the editing, recording the speech in a few passes then joining it into one long data stream. I tried clipping automatically with wavsilence, but it although it did a fairly good job of the split, I'd have had to clip manually anyway, so I returned to Audacity and selected and exported the WAV files from the initial stream. > So far we've been using TTS, which is easy to reproduce and extend. But for > sure a truly spoken file is a luxurious thing. It's a fair amount of work, but being partially sighted, I was very pleased to see Rockbox making the JB blind accessible, and I wanted to add something to that effort. If someone has a soundcard with a low noise mic line that they'd be willing to donate, I'd be willing to do it again - it's a few hours work, but as you say, it's a nice luxury. > The sound is hissing pretty bad (sorry to say), I personally woudn't > use it. I tried Audacity's built in noise removal facilities, but they made my voice sound really weird and tinny. If anyone knows of a free tool with better noise removal, please let me know. Of course the correct solution is to get a better recording in the first place. It seemed bearable to me listening on the PC, but people have different standards, and it probably sounds different on the JB itself. > I havent't seen a patch, but your IRC communication. IIRC voicefont.cpp so > far just gathers all the files it can get. The selection which are non-empty > and generate an entry was done before, in the TTS part. I agree that it > makes sense to duplicate that detection. The patch is at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~christi/public/rockbox/voicefont.ignore.empty.patch It's a bit quick and dirty, but it works with the lang files as distributed. > Thank you, You're welcome. Christi _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-05-17 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |