Switching between Mbrola voices

[Fernando Botelho]

Piere, Do you mean that by configuring Orca with Festival, one can also 
add MBROLA voices?

Where could one learn how to set something like this up?


Thanks,


Fernando



On 04/29/2017 04:38 AM, Pierre Lorenzon wrote:
> HI,
>
>
> I suspect that all you want to do is perfectly done by festival
> driving mbrola. I may understand that you do not want to use
> festival as a speech integrator, even if I personally think
> taht it is an error, but you might take advantages
> understanding how festival implements features you wihsh !
>
> Regards
>
> Pierre
>
>
> From: Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud at hypra.fr>
> Subject: Switching between Mbrola voices
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 18:29:14 +0200
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Lot of regular users would be able to switch between voices
>> from the Orca preferences GUI.
>>
>> At this time Mbrola is available from the generic module. This
>> module doesn't offer the way to switch between voices.
>>
>> I would like to implement a function that will search into the
>> mbrola location path what voices are installed. I found no
>> other way to get the list of voices from Mbrola because it
>> doesn't provide an API.
>>
>> You could see below what I would like to implement, I would
>> like your input to be sure It's OK for you due it's the first
>> time I'll patch speech-dispatcher.
>>
>> My ideas are :
>> - to patch the generic module to add this feature. I prefer this
>> - solution because I see no reason to rewrite others functions
>> - than module_list_voices.
>> - to add a new option GenericMbrolaVoices to determine if we
>> - would like to search mbrola voices. It will be not used
>> - insidepico-generic
>> - to add a new function to search for the mbrola voices into the
>> - hard drive
>> - to patch the list voices functions and return the result of the
>> - new function if the parameter GenericMbrolaVoices is set to
>> - true (1)
>>
>> Best regards.
>> -- 
>> Alex ARNAUD
>> Visual-Impairment Project Manager
>> Hypra - "Humanizing technology"
>>
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