Re: Still no speech

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

DECTalk driver is fixed now, and working with Gnopernicus.  Re-checkout and 
build gnome-speech and you should have better luck.

Marc

At 04:49 PM 5/19/2003 -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> Well, here's the very latest.  I sort of have Gnopernicus working.  I
> rebuilt Festival to use ESD figuring that since Gnome used it, maybe that
> would work.  Since ESD does mixing of sounds to let even a single-channel
> sound card act like a multiple-channel card, the results were interesting
> to say the least!  Running Festival from the command line was no problem,
> but when I ran the test-speech program, it would say several words all at
> the same time!  When I tried this with Gnopernicus, I would get choppy
> speech with some words skipped and others spoken all at once.  It would
> eventually go back to silence.  When I logged out of Gnome, the ESD
> process plus several Gnome processes would be hung requiring me to start
> killing them.  Once I killed the hung festival-server processes, sometimes
> I'd get a stream of speech like it had all built up.  Feeling desperate, I
> decided to see how the Dectalk driver performed.  I shelled out the bucks
> and installed it.  Well, of course, I had to rebuild gnome-speech, but
> once that was done, most of the tests of the Dectalk driver seemed to
> work.  The two exceptions were that the last voice sounded like the
> previous one, and more importantly, the "call-back" test made the Dectalk
> say "command error in string value.  This is test text.  Command error in
> string value."  It then hangs until I hit control-C.  If I try to start
> Gnopernicus now with the Dectalk driver, I get "command error in string
> value.  Welcome to Gnopernicus.  Command error in string value."  Then,
> silence.  Looking at my running processes shows several processes for the
> Dectalk running.  It then occurred to me that I'd just seen something about
> this with Viavoice.  The message said that Viavoice and Alsa don't get
> along too well. I am using Alsa.  I'm wondering if that could be my
> problem?  Does anybody who is using Alsa have Gnopernicus working?  If so,
> what sound card are you using and what version of Alsa?  I'd like to find
> this out before trying anything else.  By the way, this software Dectalk
> doesn't quite sound like the Dectalk voiice we all know.  The inflection
> seems about right, but there is just something different.  At least it
> doesn't have that raspy quality of the Dectalk Access 32 software for
> Windows.  This sounds more like the old Text Assist that used to ship with
> Sound Blaster cards.
>
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