Am Dienstag, 2. März 2004 11.51 schrieb Mario Lang: > Mario Fux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
