Re: [orca-list] new espeak voices samples

[Josh K <joshknnd1982 gmail com>]

hi al, answers below questions ...
 I liked the sound of the sample2 file, since it seems to approximate 
Eloquence.  I wouldn't want to read with the singsong intonations, but 
think you might be onto something.  What can you tell me about how to 
modify Espeak to do this, or where can you point me, if anywhere?  I'm 
by no means sure I have the skill needed but would like to check it out.
get espeak and espeakedit from 
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/test/latest.html
You need to have both espeak and espeakedit installed at the same time. 
intonation source files can be edited and saved using gedit in linux or 
notepad in windows. espeak has a documentation folder in there. read the 
intonation.html document. and look at sample tunes in the ph_sources 
folder open the intonations source with notepad.
Would these changes have any impact on Orca, or just on software speech 
with Speakup?
the changes will impact anything that uses espeak. orca, speakup, nvda, 
sapi5 programs. anything using espeak can take advantage of such changes.
Finally, is there a way to get these files in one of the free formats 
(free as in speech), or for me to convert them into such a format? 
Having just attended the LibrePlanet conference, I feel an increased 
drive to wean myself off non-free software wherever I can.
well espeak and espeakedit are both free open source, see website link 
above.
Thanks!

Al



On 03/23/2015 09:22 AM, Josh K wrote:
Since some of you are reluctant to go playing around and modifying
espeak I decided to give you guys some mp3 files to listen to. these mp3
files will demonstrate what we can now do using espeak intonation files.
note this is just a very very small sampling of the possibilities we now
have with intonation files! Below there are two sendspace links,
followed by two dropbox links. the voice is slow so you all can
hopefully understand it. as you will see we now have by making our own
intonation statements or by modding ones we already have and recompiling
the intonation file back into machine code for espeak to understand and
use our new tunes statements, we can ;make espeak sound exactly like
eloquence, or keynote gold, or infovox230 or whatever we wish! so enjoy
the mp3 files and please please get back to me because I want to know
what you all think of the new and enhanced espeak! I don't really know
what I'm doing. I ade this one by modding existing tunes. note I am just
playing with the numbers to achieve interesting results for now.
sendspace links

https://www.sendspace.com/file/60jqdy

https://www.sendspace.com/file/mawbmo

dropbox links

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5454959/ESpeak-sample2.mp3

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5454959/eSspeak-sample1.mp3

follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982

On 3/23/2015 2:00 PM, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> Hi, Josh.
>
> I liked the sound of the sample2 file, since it seems to approximate 
> Eloquence.  I wouldn't want to read with the singsong intonations, but 
> think you might be onto something.  What can you tell me about how to 
> modify Espeak to do this, or where can you point me, if anywhere?  I'm 
> by no means sure I have the skill needed but would like to check it out.
>
> Would these changes have any impact on Orca, or just on software 
> speech with Speakup?
>
> Finally, is there a way to get these files in one of the free formats 
> (free as in speech), or for me to convert them into such a format? 
> Having just attended the LibrePlanet conference, I feel an increased 
> drive to wean myself off non-free software wherever I can.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Al
>
>
>
> On 03/23/2015 09:22 AM, Josh K wrote:
> > Since some of you are reluctant to go playing around and modifying
> > espeak I decided to give you guys some mp3 files to listen to. these mp3
> > files will demonstrate what we can now do using espeak intonation files.
> > note this is just a very very small sampling of the possibilities we now
> > have with intonation files! Below there are two sendspace links,
> > followed by two dropbox links. the voice is slow so you all can
> > hopefully understand it. as you will see we now have by making our own
> > intonation statements or by modding ones we already have and recompiling
> > the intonation file back into machine code for espeak to understand and
> > use our new tunes statements, we can ;make espeak sound exactly like
> > eloquence, or keynote gold, or infovox230 or whatever we wish! so enjoy
> > the mp3 files and please please get back to me because I want to know
> > what you all think of the new and enhanced espeak! I don't really know
> > what I'm doing. I ade this one by modding existing tunes. note I am just
> > playing with the numbers to achieve interesting results for now.
> > sendspace links
> >
> > https://www.sendspace.com/file/60jqdy
> >
> > https://www.sendspace.com/file/mawbmo
> >
> > dropbox links
> >
> > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5454959/ESpeak-sample2.mp3
> >
> > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5454959/eSspeak-sample1.mp3