In terms of ram and pure horsepower, I really don't think festival will
run well at all. I never even bothered with festival because I assumed it
would be too resource heavy, but I couldn't even get rsynth to function
happily. I don't know what the viability of emacspeak is, but getting a
speech synthesizer working is possible (I have a closed one kicking around
someplace that works). Anyhow, I'd be interested to hear of your
progress. Good Luck.
784 - Michael C. Piantedosi - drclaw@dogsolitude.org
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, M. Eng wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As I explained in my previous email, my master's project is to design a
> speech synthetisiser for iPaQ. From the answers I got, here are another set
> of questions raised ! Thanks for your help.
>
> The Ipaq I will be using is the last one H3660 (I think) that has 64 Mo of
> memory. As the aim of the project is visual impear users, I will also use a
> keyboard for iPaQ. The keyboard is : Targus Stowaway Keyboard for the Compaq
> iPAQ Pocket PC
>
> ***I am constrained to the use of FREE OPEN SOURCE softwares***
> For this reason, I have chosen to install Linux+Emacs+EmacSpeak+Festival on
> the iPaQ.
> Is it a good choice beside the problem of floating point calculation ?
> What would be the choice ?
>
> I want to know wich Linux distribution for iPaQ is the best.
> I want as well to know if this distribution include a support of the
> keyboard.
> Can I install a distribution "Lambda" of Linux on the iPaQ, then add some
> extra packtages from an distribution "Omega" to my iPaQ ?
> Is there a special version of Debian targeted to iPaQ ? Where can I find it
> ?
>
> Some of the replies I got from my first post outline the fact that Festival
> as most of the speech processing tool software use floating point
> calculation. The IpaQ ARM processor are not able to perform this kind of
> calculation. So a significant effort may be requiered to port.
> Is it the case as well with rsynth ?
> Does anybody knows any speech synthetisiser usable under Linux, free and
> open source that is not using floating point calculation ?
>
> I have been told that there are precompiled arm items on Debian (Emacs,
> EmacSpeak, Festival). Has anybody ever try them or has them actually working
> on a PDA (ideally an iPaQ) ?
>
> Once again thanks a lot in advance for your help !
>
> Regards
>
> ---
> Latyr Jean-Luc FAYE
> http://faye.cjb.net
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