[Asterisk-Users] Festival Speech Synthesis 1.95:beta July 2004 Eval

[Steve Murphy]

Hello--

In the interests of playing around and wasting time, I've installed the
latest version of the
Festival stuff, 1.95beta.

And, in the interests of future Asterisk-Festival connectivity, I
applied the 1.4.3 patch to put in the
asterisk related routines. I did it by hand, but, it looks like the
patch will apply with no comment.
Asterisk works with the new server...

BUT

the speed of what's played over the speaker vs. what you hear over the
phone is off by maybe 2x.
The voice isn't shifted in frequency at all. On Asterisk, the voice just
speaks twice as fast as it does 
coming from festival over the speakers. And, if you are having it say
jokes at double speed, well, it reminds me of speed reading.

There must be some lever or pulley or switch or something to modify the
speed.

AND

Hoo boy, try putting this in your siteinit.scm file:

(set! voice_default 'voice_cstr_us_awb_arctic_multisyn)

and listen to this:

 (SayText "Hello there, kyootee pie.")
(SayText "Don't you just love the sound of my voice.")
(SayText "My wife, Sonya, Makes the best bread there ever was")

Best synthetic voice I've ever heard.

murf


-- 
Steve Murphy 
Electronic Tools Company
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