Does anyone have a problem with flite?
 

seems like when i installed it my sound doesnt work anymore??

Re: Does anyone have a problem with flite?
 

Were you able to fix that? I am looking for info on FLITE and want to make sure it works...

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It works for me, and resurrecting threads from last year, when a different version of the OS was available, is not likely to help much.

What's so hard about just trying it?

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from one of your previous posts, i see that you are running OS2007 on an n800. AFAIK, it did work, but there is a newer OS (2008) and the current flite package does work without issue.

maybe look into flashing the device to the newest OS, and install flite.

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I just got new N810 and installed maemo mapper on it. Wondering if FLITE is good enough to install to have voice commands...

Re: Does anyone have a problem with flite?
 

It's not an acronym, and it works fine. Just try it.

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Is flite 1.3 the latest version available? (see I stopped capitalizing flite as per your comment...)

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I believe so; it's the version I have installed, anyhow.

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using the app manager program, the most current version of the app in the repositories is listed.

being that the ITTs are not the same platform as your desktop computer, the newest version of flite for x86 may not be available for the nokia n8x0. the code needs to be ported to this platform.

for all intents and purposes, the version of flite available from the repos is all you need for voice directions in mapper.

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Benson,

THANK YOU so much for yuor guidance! I just installed it works. The voice is pretty annoyiong, thou..

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Yeah, that it is, but it's replacable at compile time ;). Someday, when I have too much time, I'm gonna try porting it with some nicer voice. ETA: 2027.

BTW, I just ported some gps-related tools, which let you run a whacked-up version of cyborg.py, which uses flite to give you the direction (in o'clock format, relative to your current heading), distance, and ETA to a given destination. You have to have MM or something running to keep the GPS up (at least with an N800 and BT GPS), but I find it useful (as well as cool); if you're interested, it's over here.

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And if you have extra too much free spare time, Benson, could you try porting it with some Spanish voice too?

Thank you in advance.

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the voice has nothing to do with the language. i think it would require that the directions/voice prompts would have to be passed through a translation engine, and then synthesized using flite.

not sure, but i think gnuite was doing something with mapper so that one could pick his/her locale and have the gpx downloaded in the native language. not sure if that was implemented or even on the road map, but i heard whispers to that effect some time ago.

if it was the case that one could download routes, with directions in their native language, the flite should be indifferent, and be able to give the directions in the language specified. i think the pronunciation may be a bit off, and that would make for some fun listening.

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I think you need a different voice as well, because the phonics is part of the voice.

If you fed it Spanish, it would sound like me reading Spanish. The pronunciation gets highly amusing at times, because the letters are the same, but the rules are funny. Moreover, because of that distinction, some sounds needed for Spanish just won't be there. No point compiling them in, if this set of rules never calls them.

I read just enough about flite voices to learn that it wasn't just a bunch of audio files I could modify or replace, but involved

1. recompiling
   and
2. porting the logic (from Scheme, IIRC) to C

Then I got discouraged and filed it for "too much time" time. So I'm no expert, but I know it has logic in there, and I'm pretty sure it's language specific.

I don't think it'd be more work porting a Spanish voice than an English, so if I did jump in, I'd probably do several voices, including a hot senorita (provided I can find such a voice for festival).

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great idea, books on tape meets pr0n. if you could choreograph an image slideshow or video to that... holy wow. i could see that taking off as a product.

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Thanks, Benson.

I will start looking for a good Spanish voice.

Edit: Found two mexican voices (they will be good as neutral Spanish)

Male Voice
Female Voice

Apparently, you need a synthesizer scheme code before using them. Here it is.

Found here.

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Have you ever listened Spanish language street names pronounced with the original English flite voice? It's impossible to understand where you are.

By the way, in RoadMap you already can change the words flite uses to announce. For instance, you can have 'Aproximándose a' instead of 'Approaching', but the standard pronunciation makes it useless.

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The voice is bad, but it works fine. When I used it with Maemo Mapper, I just had to remember that when it was making noise, I was supposed to turn or something. I couldn't distinguish many actual words. But, as a squawk box, it worked well.

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flite doesn't work on my maemo mapper why?:(

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That's awesome, but the ETA 2027 still applies; it's just gonna take some time porting the scheme to C and setting up to build... I don't expect it to be all that hard, but time is time, and I don't have enough. ;) Maybe you (or someone else with a vested interest) should work on it meanwhile.

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I would love to work on it, but my experience is null. The first time I used something related to Linux was the day I turned my N810 on for the first time...

Re: Does anyone have a problem with flite?
 

I have flite 1.3 installed on N770 with OS2008HE. I get no sound with my maemo mapper that is set to use flite. I opened Xterm and typed flite 'this is a test' and I could hear it if I had the headsets on one of the earpieces. However, I can hear nothing if the headsets are not on. I have the volume turned up all the way. All other audio apps work fine on my N770.


Any ideas/ help is appreciated.

TIA

N770 w/ OS2008HE