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Subject:    [festival-talk] text2wave - why do certain things work and others not? - one more
From:       James.Burlant () mesa ! afmc ! af ! mil (James ! Burlant at mesa ! afmc ! af ! mil)
Date:       2005-08-30 16:23:06
Message-ID: 671474002216D14B8D440C71877F9A8D0101E913 () fsqbge07 ! williams ! afmc ! ds ! amfc ! af ! mil
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A follow-on to my last message:  also, why did my usage of text2wave result
in rendered utterances with low volume in the first place?

 

Jim Burlant

Sr. Software Engineer

L-3 Communications

6030 S. Kent St.

Mesa, AZ 85212

(480)988-9773 x383

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From: Burlant James G Contr AFRL/HEA 
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 9:13 AM
To: festival-talk at festvox.org
Subject: text2wave - why do certain things work and others not?

 

Last week, I posted a question about how to modify the loudness/intensity of
a voice, and I received replies offline that answered my question and solved
my problem.  Thank you to those who responded.

 

I ran into this issue after I had modified text2wave so it allowed the user
to select the voice when the script was invoked.  I also noticed - for some
inexplicable reason - that neither "(voice_rab_diphone)" nor "(set!
current-voice (voice_rab_diphone))" worked when I attempted to use those
statements from inside text2wave.  Either way, attempting to render text
using text2wave in this fashion would result in an error from SIOD
complaining that rab_diphone (or whatever voice I'd selected) was an invalid
parameter.  

 

The only thing I could get to work from inside text2wave was to use the
(voice.select) function. When I did this the volume of the rendered
utterance came out awfully low, and the fix suggested by those who emailed
me did the trick.

 

The $64 question that I'm sure Alan Black could answer off the top of his
head - why did I have to resort to (voice.select)?  Why didn't (set!
current-voice (...)) or calling the voice definition function work from
inside text2wave?  Did festival have to be initialized first?  

 

Anyone?

 

Jim Burlant

Sr. Software Engineer

L-3 Communications

6030 S. Kent St.

Mesa, AZ 85212

(480)988-9773 x383

 

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