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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Generating non-English voice sets daily (testers needed!)Re: Generating non-English voice sets daily (testers needed!)
From: johnb via rockbox-dev <rockbox-dev_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 16:14:30 +0200 German (deutsch) sounds very distorted and some vowels are not pronounced (dropped), e.g. Dat(ei)ansicht (file view). Am Sa., 11. Juli 2020 um 20:52 Uhr schrieb Solomon Peachy via rockbox-dev < rockbox-dev_at_cool.haxx.se>: > Over the past few days I've done a lot of work fixing up warts relating > to generating non-English voice files. > > Things have progressed to the point where all the build infrastructure > can now automatically generate (and present for download) multiple voice > files, with each voice having its own language, tts engine, and tts > options specified. > > (Why multiple voices per language? Consider different voice genders or > regional pronunciations, or in a more extreme example, China has > multiple distinct spoken languages that share a common script!) > > So, I just have to flip a switch and all languages with >= 95% string > coverage [1] will get voices automagically generated every evening, > using the espeak-ng engine's default voice for that language. > > There is probably no downside to turning this stuff on, but before I do > so I would appreciate it if folks who speak/understand these languages > can do a quick sanity-check to make sure the voices are usable and > useful. > > Additionally, this change also includes a switch the nightly build's > English voice from Festival to espeak-ng, mostly due to the latter being > much faster at runtime. I can revert this back to festival if anyone > feels strongly enough about it. > > Feedback appreciated! > > Meanwhile, back to the bit mines... > > [1] English, Serbian, Polish, American English, Russian, Greek, Slovak, > Norgeigan, Italian, and German > > - Solomon > -- > Solomon Peachy pizza at shaftnet dot org > (email&xmpp) > _at_pizza:shaftnet dot org (matrix) > High Springs, FL speachy (freenode) > Received on 2020-07-12 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |