Making your machine talk...
Craig F. Reese
cfreese at super.ORG
Sun Dec 9 09:07:00 AEST 1990
In article <513 at brchh104.bnr.ca> jsb at cs.brown.edu (John Bazik) writes:
>In article <292 at brchh104.bnr.ca>, jack at cwi.nl (Jack Jansen) writes:
>|> I am trying to build a program that talks to me.
>The obvious hack is to record all the phonemes and write a backend to
>string them together and write them to /dev/audio.
I tried this with very limited success (I didn't expect it to work well
anyway). Here's what I did:
- Use NRL text->phoneme algorithm
- segment the phoneme stream into individual phonemes
- paste together speech segments from digitized recording
of the phoneme "words" (i.e. beet bit gate...)
- ship the result to /dev/audio.
It is a fun excercise but don't expect very much. Its not as good as my
$60 text to speech board that I plug into the RS-232 connector. If I can
find the time I think it could be made better with some signal processing
hacks. If anybody has a better version I'd very much like to hear (no pun
intended) about it.
Craig F. Reese Email: cfreese at super.org
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