On 17/10/2024 00:22, Karen Lewellen wrote:
I have never run provox, but have a copy. Let me see if there is a
users guide to share.
Thanks for sharing. It appears provox have a few different modes for
processing punctuation. These can be switched with slash-F5.
I would personally appreciate a chance to sample your piper work.
Can you create a small mp3 file to share?
I made a video of the SvarDOS "BNS" installation with emubns acting as
the Braille 'n Speak synth and Piper used as the TTS backend. Link:
https://youtu.be/C6gEjqdI9-E
an audio-only MP3 export can be listened to at the link below. It starts
after some 15s of silence.
http://mateusz.viste.fr/tmp/svardos/svardos-emubns-piper.mp3
The TTS part is not perfect, but probably as good as it can be for a
quick hack I have put together in a a couple of hours. Provox is
sometimes cutting the phrases at odd places. I guess this did not matter
back in the day with actual BNS devices as these were probably talking
in some monotonous semi-robotic tone, but now it makes piper do strange
inflections sometimes. Not much I can do about that, I'm afraid.
I will look into putting the emubns+piper tandem on a Raspberry Pi with
some automated serial port detection. If it happens to work as I expect
it to, I will upload a plug-and-play image that transforms a cheap
Raspberry Pi device into a BNS speech synth that can be used with DOS
computers.
Mateusz
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