Is that the same Sam voice that XP used as the default TTS?
I always that sounded like a fat man with a sock stuffed into his mouth.
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From: <kperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2020 3:39 PM
Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: Wow!
They are just using sam and it is pretty sad sounds. I have that library
already but the limited phonemes is not what I am looking for. Double talk
is better than that.
ken
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On Behalf Of Ben Mustill-Rose
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2020 4:29 PM
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Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: Wow!
I worked on the first version of the micro:bit before it got handed over to
the foundation. The PSF managed to do software TTS on 8MHZ and 16K RAM ontop
of a Python interpreter and user code. It was a port of SAM which is a
fairly old TTS engine from the 80's. Amazing what you can do these days.
On 12/31/20, kperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <kperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here is what I did with just snap circuits and emic. I am getting rid===========================================================
of the emic though and have made it with Talkie. Now I am going to
replace it with Espeak and if I get it to work I will push the change
to espeak so everyone can use it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6xysttwp4drxhd3/Snap%20Circuit%20Brailler.MO
V?dl=0
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<raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Ben Mustill-Rose
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2020 3:20 PM
To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: Wow!
A DIY synth would be a nice project for a PI. Find the docs for /
reverse engineer the protocol for a widely supported hardware synth
then use something like eSpeak for the actual speaking. Doesn't even
need a Pi really.
On 12/31/20, Michael A Ray <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Careful with serial port connected hardware speech synthesisers
connected via USB to serial adapters.
Most, if not all, serial port synths require a connection that
supports hardware handshaking.
As far as I know, some, if not all, USB to serial adapters do not
support this.
The PL2303 chip adapters almost certainly do not. I think some of the
FTDI chip ones do. But many of these are not supplied with enough
pins connected through for this to be true.
The synth needs hardware handshaking to tell the computer when to
stop sending more speech data while it catches up.
This is not heard as pauses, the data is arriving too quickly for
this, but too quickly for the synth to keep up and it needs to pause
delivery.
Also, the synth probably uses handshaking to tell the PC when it has
finished, and when more data can be sent.
The kernel modules for the synths that SpeakUp supports are also not
built in Raspbian at least.
So you would need to rebuild your own kernel.
This is not difficult to do. But should be done by cross-compiling on
a desktop.
The first time I compiled a kernel on a Raspberry Pi, it took fifteen
hours.
Sure that was a 512 Raspberry Pi 1B. But it is still probably very
slow even on an 8GB Pi 4.
Even if it were much faster, it would be a good idea to build on a
USB drive, because a kernel build uses a LOT of reads and writes, and
the SD card is very slow.
On 31/12/2020 19:13, kperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
My old doubletalk LT died and the parts that burnt out we were not
able to get. With that said check this out. This would be great to
add to my raspberry PI and speakup: RC systems is selling the
doubletalk still.
$179
https://www.rcsys.com/order.htm
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