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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: VoicesRE: Voices
From: Stephen Guerra <stephen_at_independentliving.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:10:56 -0500 Where are all the clips located for listening Stephen A. Guerra Assistive Technology Specialist Independent Living Aids 200 Robbins Lane Jericho, NY 11753 E-Mail: can-do_at_independentliving.com www.independentliving.com www.annmorris.com www.soundbytes.com Phone: (516) 937-1848 Fax: (516) 937-3906 -----Original Message----- From: rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of [IDC]Dragon Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 3:26 AM To: Rockbox Subject: Re: Voices > I'd be willing to do the edit work. > I have a recording studio and spend quite a bit of time editing > anyway; I > really don't mind it at all. Nice initiative! That was actually my first idea of voice files, when speccing the feature: "just" record them. A bit later I learned how well TTS works these days and that it's much easier to maintain with automated and scripted authoring. Since we now have quite a lot of clips (353 as of today), the "key" to an efficient voice file is to have the clips as short as possible. This is also necessary to have numbers and spelling fluent. I don't know what audio tools are available for such clipping and leaving the first syllable intact. You'd need to save the clips into 353 files then, each named like the original language ID. The authoring tool can then process them. Perhaps we can come up with a better way, not requiring this tedious intermediate step. A hypothetical tool could auto-clip the takes if spoken with a gap, save them as individual files. (And hope for no offset within) Jörg -- DSL-Aktion wegen großer Nachfrage bis 28.2.2006 verlängert: GMX DSL-Flatrate 1 Jahr kostenlos* http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dslReceived on 2006-01-30 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |