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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Modifying Voice ClipsRe: 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 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |