From hzo at gmx.de Sun Jul 18 23:08:49 2004 From: hzo at gmx.de (Hans Zoebelein) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 01:08:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Updated [Emacspeak] Drivers (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 19:02:06 +1000 From: Tim Cross To: emacspeak at cs.vassar.edu Cc: lenzo at cepstral.com Subject: Updated Drivers Resent-Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 05:02:22 -0400 (EDT) Resent-From: emacspeak at cs.vassar.edu I have just made available on my web site some updated drivers for emacspeak. This includes updated drivers for Cepstral's Theta TTS and a modified version of the software dectalk driver which works with version 5.0 of the software dectalk. Changes in these versions include - - Two Cepstral drivers. One is a simpler driver which uses just one voice, whicle the second is based on the original driver which uses SSML. - Inclusion of a generic-voices.el file, which may be of interest to anyone who wants to add very basic support for a new synthesizer. - A modified software dectalk server which will work with version 5.0 of the software dectalk. The driver has been "improved" by removing some of the in-line dectalk commands. I found some of these commands were responsible for some of the poor quality in the speech output. Once I removed these commands, the server became much more usable. These versions of the drivers should work with the most recent official release of emacspeak - version 20. If your using an earlier version or a more recent version checked out from CVS, you may need to hack things a bit. If you find problems/bugs, please report them to the emacspeak mailing list rather than me directly as then everyone will be aware of the problems and maybe even the solutions! Tim