Re: Festival with Gnopernicus to quick
Am Dienstag, 2. März 2004 11.51 schrieb Mario Lang:
> Mario Fux <foxman@lugo.ch> writes:
Salve Mario
> > ATM I test Gnopernicus with Festival for a visually impaired friend.
> > I use Debian testing on different machines but on each of them the
> > festival voices speak to quick. I think approx. twice as quick as normal.
>
> Just a wild guess, but is it possible that it isn't only just quicker,
> but also higher? I mean, does it sound like it's being played
> back with double-speed? If so, your sound-card is most
> probably the problem:
> Some soundchips do not allow for intermediate sampling-rates
> except 11025, 22050 and 44100. Festival's voices are
> recorded at 8000 and 16000Hz. If you play such a sample
> on such a soundcard, it does sound as if it was played twice as fast.
Yes, exactly this is or better was the problem.
> > Do you have got an idea why this is so and how I can set it to a normal
> > speed?
>
> If my above assumption is correct, I'm afraid the only
> soltuion you have is to get a decent soundchip.
Fortunately it's not the only solution. See the link of Gilles (btw: Nice to
see you here, Gilles and thanks of course ;-):
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/cgi-bin/lists.cgi?config=festival_faq&entry=arunning_festival/speed.html
For documentation or archive purposes here the solution:
Put the following two lines into /etc/festival.scm
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "sox -t raw -sw -r $SR $FILE -c2 -t
ossdsp /dev/dsp")
and then restart festival with:
/etc/init.d/festival
This is perhaps something for the README.Debian of the gnopernicus package or
better for festival?
I think this is rather a common behavior because I've got here atm three PCs
(2 PCs and a laptop). One works (Debian woody and soundcard Creative Audigy)
and two doesn't work (Laptop: Debian sarge and soundcard i810 or something -
2nd PC: Debian sarge and soundcard C-Media PCI (CMI8338/8738) onboard).
> --
> CYa,
> Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/>
thx
Mario
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