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Using non-speex files for voice
jenova314:
Hi all,
I recently upgraded my H320's firmware to 3.x, and am disappointed that I can no longer use MP3s as my .talk files. Is there any way around it, aside from downgrading? Many of my directories are either in Mandarin or Japanese, and speex does an extremely horrible job at pronouncing them. I imagine the switch to speex was to save space, but at a great cost in voice quality IMHO.
I used to use these types of sites to generate my voice files in different languages, and have been pleased:
http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/
Llorean:
"Speex" is not a text-to-speech Engine. It doesn't affect the pronunciation, all it is is a different way of making the .wav files you get smaller (MP3 is not as effective for voice).
jenova314:
Well, that explains a lot of the trouble I've been having! Thanks!
bluebrother:
Btw, I suggest checking first -- there is a nice explanation of speex at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speex
jenova314:
Thanks for everybody's help.
I've compiled some wav files that I would like to encode into speex files. However, having used the Speex ACM Codec 1.0.1.1, dBpower Speex Codec, or Speex Frontend UI, I have yet to yield a single file that was able to have my H320 say the file directories. I have renamed the files appropriately to _dirname.talk under directories that I'd like voiced, and it is simply not working.
However, when I use the rockbox util, it works just fine. Strangely, the files generated by rbutil does not play in foobar2000, whereas my self-encoded spx files do. Unfortunately, I do not like the TTS included with rbutil, and would like to use my own.
Am I doing something wrong? Also, does anybody know how I can have rbutil use different TTS in different languages? Thanks!
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