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Subject: Re: Modifying Voice Clips

Re: Modifying Voice Clips

From: Rocker <rocker_at_shaw.ca>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:05:56 -0600

Yall wrote:
ScottLearned wrote:
> Brian Wolven wrote:
> The encoding options used by the voiceBox scripts are set in the
> variable LameOpts in the voiceBox.wsf file, like so:
>
> Const LameOpts = "-m m -b 24 -S"
>
> I'm not really sure what would provide the best *quality* voice clip. At
> one time we had some constraints on the clips that limited our choices,
> IIRC. I'm not sure if that is true any longer. I'd have to dig around in
> the lame docs and experiment a bit first to see what might work better.
> If anyone out there has used some different settings for Lame (or the
> SAPI5 voices) and gotten better results, please post them here. I'd be
> happy to make them the new default options in the voiceBox package.
>
>
> Hi Brian,
> Thanks for the info. I tried a couple of different settings and finally
> decided on 32, as this seems to be the best choice for me considering the
> size/ audio quality.
> Oh yes, this was done with NeoSpeech Paul.
>
> By the way, these scripts Rock! I converted a 5.5G folder including
> subfolders and files, in a little over a minute!

SAPI5 Lets you do text-to-speech direct to file, so you can go much faster
than
real time. If only the [free] voices were better...

And that's the bigg issue with SAPI 4 voices like MS Sam. Quality really
sucks! Still, sooo much better then the alternative eh?

Keep on rocking folks...rocker



----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Wolven" <bcwolven_at_jhu.edu>
To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: Modifying Voice Clips


ScottLearned wrote:
> Brian Wolven wrote:
> The encoding options used by the voiceBox scripts are set in the
> variable LameOpts in the voiceBox.wsf file, like so:
>
> Const LameOpts = "-m m -b 24 -S"
>
> I'm not really sure what would provide the best *quality* voice clip. At
> one time we had some constraints on the clips that limited our choices,
> IIRC. I'm not sure if that is true any longer. I'd have to dig around in
> the lame docs and experiment a bit first to see what might work better.
> If anyone out there has used some different settings for Lame (or the
> SAPI5 voices) and gotten better results, please post them here. I'd be
> happy to make them the new default options in the voiceBox package.
>
>
> Hi Brian,
> Thanks for the info. I tried a couple of different settings and finally
> decided on 32, as this seems to be the best choice for me considering the
> size/ audio quality.
> Oh yes, this was done with NeoSpeech Paul.
>
> By the way, these scripts Rock! I converted a 5.5G folder including
> subfolders and files, in a little over a minute!

SAPI5 Lets you do text-to-speech direct to file, so you can go much faster
than
real time. If only the [free] voices were better...
Received on 2006-04-03

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