Re: [orca-list] new espeak voices samples

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

There are a ton of sound and video file format converters available, many accessib le, but not all, and some 
just barely usable with orca. I find that 
ffmepg or the fork used by your distro, avconv for instance, very nice and often easy to use. These are 
command line programs, but are also used as  
backends to GUI stuff, and called by things like video download helper extension for firefox just to name 
one. 
Sox can do some convertion as well. Use your distro's package manager's search functions to see what is 
available, e.g. apt-cache search for Debian 
based distros, synapticf or the Ubuntu software center, (last for guess which distros), pacman, or wrappers 
that include the AUR like packer or yaourt 
for Arch and Manjaro and friends, yum...
Ffmpeg is good to get and learn because it is available for all distros, and may have ports to other 
platforms. 
There is a powerful set of scripts that can convert to and from just about anything called pacpl.  It uses 
things like ffmpeg, and on some distros at 
least has some GUI conponents that might not be usable with orca. It is a big download, especially if it 
wants to get all the gui stuff, but the CLI 
side of it is easy to use. 
Be aware however that often you may have to change some codec for another when installing multimedia 
converters, and sometimes they can have complicated 
dependenciess issues. 


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  Josh K wrote:
Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 02:33:03PM -0400

> 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
>
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