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Hello--<BR>
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In the interests of playing around and wasting time, I've installed the latest version of the<BR>
Festival stuff, 1.95beta.<BR>
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And, in the interests of future Asterisk-Festival connectivity, I applied the 1.4.3 patch to put in the<BR>
asterisk related routines. I did it by hand, but, it looks like the patch will apply with no comment.<BR>
Asterisk works with the new server...<BR>
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BUT<BR>
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the speed of what's played over the speaker vs. what you hear over the phone is off by maybe 2x.<BR>
The voice isn't shifted in frequency at all. On Asterisk, the voice just speaks twice as fast as it does <BR>
coming from festival over the speakers. And, if you are having it say jokes at double speed, well, it reminds me of speed reading.<BR>
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There must be some lever or pulley or switch or something to modify the speed.<BR>
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AND<BR>
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Hoo boy, try putting this in your siteinit.scm file:<BR>
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(set! voice_default 'voice_cstr_us_awb_arctic_multisyn)<BR>
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and listen to this:<BR>
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(SayText "Hello there, kyootee pie.")<BR>
(SayText "Don't you just love the sound of my voice.")<BR>
(SayText "My wife, Sonya, Makes the best bread there ever was")<BR>
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Best synthetic voice I've ever heard.<BR>
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murf<BR>
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-- <BR>
Steve Murphy <BR>
Electronic Tools Company
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