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Subject: 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

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