Using emacspeak with speech-dispatcher

[Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

T. V. Raman writes:
 > 
 > If you can separate out ssml-voices, generic-voices from the
 > cepstral stuff, and email a pointer to the resulting tarball,
 > I'll integrate that in for starters. 

Already done. The lisp code (generic-voices.el, ssml-voices.el) doesn
not contain anything specific to cepstral. That is all contained in
the tcl script.

 > 
 > Given that the cepstral stuff is broken, I dont think it should
 > go into the overall package, it will only serve to generate
 > questions via email.

Yep, I agree. However, note that its not really 'broken'. It will
still work with the older Cepstral Theta TTS engine. It just won't
work with the newer Cepstral Swift TTS engine. So, anyone who has an
older version would be able to use it. Given that this is likely to
cause confusion for people I agree it probably shouldn't be
included. I would still like to do a new TCL shared library which uses
the swift API at some point. If the generic-voices.el, ssml-voices.el
and the modified dtk-speak.el files are integrated into emacspeak
already, it will be easy to add support for swift.

The URL for the tar archive is

http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~tcross/cepstral-theta-2.0.tar.gz

and the url for the updated software dectalk stuff is at

http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~tcross/software-dtk-hack-2.0.tar.gz

Tim

 > 
 > >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
 >     Tim> T. V. Raman writes:
 >     >> If you would like the above code to remain useful, you'll
 >     >> need to factor out the SSML bits from the cepstral bits.
 >     >> You and I had discussed how to implement SSML support --
 >     >> not sure if that discussion made it to the list archives;
 >     >> But essentially you will need to contribute two files:
 >     >> 
 >     >> 0) ssml-voices.el An implementation of the mapping from
 >     >> personalities to SSML codes
 >     >> 
 >     >> 1) ssml-tts An associated TTS server
 >     >> 
 >     >> In addition, you'll need to write the functions that
 >     >> configure the speech layer to use the two -- that code
 >     >> would be integrated into dtk-speak by me, something I'll
 >     >> do once the other bits are done.
 >     >> 
 >     Tim>
 > Hi Raman,
 >     Tim> 
 >     Tim> I beleive this is what I have done already. Based on our
 >     Tim> discussions a couple of years ago, I have attempted to
 >     Tim> follow your suggestions as closely as I could. If
 >     Tim> something isn't correct, let me know. The tar archive
 >     Tim> currently contains -
 >     Tim> 
 >     Tim> In directory lisp -
 >     Tim> 
 >     Tim> 	- ssml-voices.el = all the SSML mapping stuff -
 >     Tim> nothing specific to cepstral
 >     Tim> 
 >     Tim> 	- generic-voices.el = essentially do nothing type
 >     Tim> file which I use to get clean text out of emacspeak
 >     Tim> should I wish to use some speech server at a very basic
 >     Tim> level (ie. no voice locking). This is not needed for the
 >     Tim> ssml or cepstral stuff - just a quick and dirty
 >     Tim> interface method potentially useful for generic speech
 >     Tim> servers.
 >     Tim> 
 >     Tim> 	- dtk-speak.el - patched to provide matching
 >     Tim> start/end tags if required (based on current server) and
 >     Tim> added some bits to allow the cepstral generic and
 >     Tim> cepstral ssml server to be selected in the same manner
 >     Tim> as other speech servers using the .servers file etc. I
 >     Tim> attempted to make things as consistent as possible, so I
 >     Tim> made the necessary changes to this file so that the
 >     Tim> cepstral speech servers could be treated in exactly the
 >     Tim> same way as all other speech servers.
 >     Tim> 
 >     Tim> 	- dectalk-voices.el and outloud-voices.el = These
 >     Tim> files reference other *-voices.el files, so I just added
 >     Tim> the ssml-voices.el for consistency - no other changes
 >     Tim> are made to these files.  - Makefile - updated the
 >     Tim> makefuile so that it could integrate into emacspeak like
 >     Tim> the other files and you could use make to build and
 >     Tim> install the whole emacspeak package etc.
 >     Tim> 
 >     Tim> In the servers directory
 >     Tim> 
 >     Tim> 	- theta - the cepstral tts tcl interface
 >     Tim> equivelent to dtk-soft or any of the other tcl
 >     Tim> scripts. Uses the tts-lib.tcl library.
 >     Tim> 
 >     Tim> 	- theta-ssml - tcl script which supports the ssml
 >     Tim> version of the interface.
 >     Tim> 
 >     Tim> 	- cepstral-theta - directory containing the
 >     Tim> shared library used by the tcl scripts, just like
 >     Tim> dtktcl.c et al. There are two shared libraries -
 >     Tim> tcltheta.c and tclthetassml.c
 >     Tim> 
 >     Tim> At this stage, the Cepstral stuff only supports their
 >     Tim> old theta API and therefore will not work with their
 >     Tim> newer version (called swift). However, I still think the
 >     Tim> ssml-voices.el and generic-voices.el and modifications
 >     Tim> to dtk-speak.el might be very useful as it would then be
 >     Tim> relatively straight forward to add any synth support for
 >     Tim> TTS engines which either support SSML or a basic generic
 >     Tim> interface.
 >     Tim> 
 >     Tim> Also available on my website is a patched version of the
 >     Tim> C sources for the software dectalk (dtktcl.c). The one
 >     Tim> bundled with emacpseak has been broken since version 5
 >     Tim> of the software dectalk came out. It might be worth
 >     Tim> replacing or adding it as well.
 >     Tim> 
 >     Tim> Tim
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