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thomaslloyd
So where we are now. I have a reasonably stable open-sapi that runs
with Speech Dispatcher and Orce through wine. It is fast responsive
and sounds nice. Changing the voice in open-sapi is a pain at the
moment and none of the Orca setting pitch, volume and rate actually
take affect . If people would like a sneaky peak I can get the pitch
volume and rate all working and release a pre-Alpha deb. Let me know
if your interested.
Change Log:
* Fixed command line bugs with ?
* Enable file/wav format changes
* Enabled wav file output
* Streamlined Code
* Moved to a multi threaded model
* Reworked the debugger to use threads
* Reworked speech output to use threads
* Rework audio output to use Memory Streams
A recent move to Lucid has meant that open-sapi had to evolve in a new
direction.
The update of wine in Lucid was a very much needed component for open-
sapi to even run under Ubuntu. This now allows for the multi threaded
server to run smoothly with significant performance improvements with
open-sapi responsiveness and application start up times.
However with every update comes another problem. We are supposed to
call it progress.
The wine ESD sound driver is soo out of date that pulse audio and wine
are no longer best friends and the audio is sometimes distorted
sometimes not, with lots of pops and fizzes on the output. Also from
what I read this is different depending on your hardware. So using the
wine audio subsystem is not really viable anymore for open-sapi.
So I have begun development to get RAW audio data from sapi and pass
that to the client who can do what they want with it. The proof of
concept is done and I have RAW audio streams that I can process,
redirect anyway I want. This was a big project milestone as it was a
stopper on the development of the Speech Dispatcher module. Also it
allows me to follow on to actually creating a speech server which can
output multiple streams to multiple clients at the same time.
Tony Sales
install the sapivoices seperately, or would the installer download
them for? Bill cox has now set up a vinux repository for lucid, I am
sure he would be happy to host it on that so people using lucid and/or
vinux could try it out by using apt-get install opensapi.
drbongo
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Dig that crazy beat on the drums: <http://vinux.org.uk> The best is
getting better!
A
open-sapi is becoming more and more promising to really serve a bridge
between linux and all available quality SAPI voices.
Cheers!