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how to make text2wave speak faster
Pawel
2006-05-12 13:55:47 UTC
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Hallo
Could You tell me how to make it read faster. There is `-eval' option but I do not know what I should put there.

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nshmyrev-o+MxOtu4lMCHXe+ (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
2006-05-15 09:42:19 UTC
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Hallo
Could You tell me how to make it read faster. There is `-eval' option but I do not know what I should put there.
Greetings
Hello Pawel.

It's not quite clear what do you mean by 'read faster'. If you wish to
minimize delays between speech chunks, it's better to use festival-
server and festival-client. Thus you'll minimize the time needed to
initialize voices.

If you need to increase speech rate, you can edit voice definitions in
particular find the line

(Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 1.1)

and play with this parameter value. You can use siteinit.scm to assign it but
to start you can directly edit scheme voice definition.



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Pawel
2006-05-15 12:59:11 UTC
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Hallo
Could You tell me how to make it read faster. There is `-eval' option but I do not know what I should put there.
Greetings
Hello Pawel.
It's not quite clear what do you mean by 'read faster'. If you wish to
minimize delays between speech chunks, it's better to use festival-
server and festival-client. Thus you'll minimize the time needed to
initialize voices.
If you need to increase speech rate, you can edit voice definitions in
particular find the line
(Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 1.1)
and play with this parameter value. You can use siteinit.scm to assign it but
to start you can directly edit scheme voice definition.
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Nickolay,
Sorry for not being precise.
I need to increase speech rate.

I tried to change with speech rate but no success.

I straced text2wave and saw that it uses ~/.festivalrc. I added following line there but no success:
(Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 4.9)


I saw (from strace) that text2wave successfully opens following voice definition : kal_diphone.scm

I did the changes there to:
(Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 10.9)

but still no effect.

Then I decided to run festival server, but before I added line to:
~/festival_server.scm

Then I run: cat /tmp/f.txt | festival_client --ttw | na_play

but unfortunatelly without success.

Have You got any ideas, what I am doing wrong ?

Greetings


strace contents:
458. access("/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/festvox/kal_diphone.scm", R_OK) = 0
459. open("/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/festvox/kal_diphone.scm", O_RDONLY) = 7
465. access("/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/festvox/radio_phones.scm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
518. access("/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/festvox/tobi.scm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
534. access("/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/festvox/f2bf0lr.scm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
547. access("/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/festvox/kaldurtreeZ.scm", R_OK) = 0
548. open("/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/festvox/kaldurtreeZ.scm", O_RDONLY) = 7
982. access("/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/festvox/lts.scm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

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nshmyrev-o+MxOtu4lMCHXe+ (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
2006-05-16 18:31:04 UTC
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Post by Pawel
Nickolay,
Sorry for not being precise.
I need to increase speech rate.
I tried to change with speech rate but no success.
(Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 4.9)
Please try first to change this parameter directly in the voice
description, say i

/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/festvox/kal_diphone.scm



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Pawel
2006-05-18 08:12:53 UTC
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Post by Pawel
Nickolay,
Sorry for not being precise.
I need to increase speech rate.
I tried to change with speech rate but no success.
(Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 4.9)
Please try first to change this parameter directly in the voice
description, say i
/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/festvox/kal_diphone.scm
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= University of Edinburgh's Festival Speech Synthesis System =
= http://festvox.org/festival Sent Via festival-talk at festvox.org =
= To unsubscribe mail majordomo at festvox.org =
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Nickolay,
I did the changes in above file and it changed the speech rate.
thank You for help:)

Greetings
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