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Re: GNUSpeech Console Utility

2009-11-05T14:47:40Z

Hi John,

From memory:

On Nov 4, 2009, at 8:42 PM, John Delaney wrote:

One thing I've noticed is that the syntax in the speechserverprotocol is different from the notation used by the eventlist and monet, ie:

    notionalPitch Setting a base pitch
    pretonicRange How much pitch movement occurs *before* reaching the tonic foot in the tone group being processed -- see last email
    pretonicLift How much the pre-tonic feet are raised
    tonicRange
    tonicMovement How much pitch movement occurs in the tonic

These relate to the intonation contour as set up for Monet. You need a little understanding of the Halliday basis of the intonation

are named differently than:
    speed; To do with the rate of speech
    elasticity; Obsolete parameter.
    intonation; Is intonation applied or not
    voiceType; Male/female/child
    pitchOffset; Difference in pitch from the default pitch
    volume; The volume and balance have the obvious meaning
    balance;

These relate to the set-up for the TextToSpeech Server You may find the Developer_TextToSpeech_Manual.pdf that I referenced in my last email helps you understand some of the Server parameters. Looking at the intonation control in Monet will help you understand the intonation contour parameters used in experiments with Monet and not really part of the Server adjustments as far as the user is concerned.

david

I'm not sure which variables correspond to what, so I'll take a good first stab and try to get things working for my purposes now.

Thank you,
John Delaney

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:21 PM, John Delaney <a.pet.rock@...> wrote:
Here I was trying to implement a speech synthesis API for a graduate musical synthesis class, and now I'm getting roped into actually working on the project. I'll implement some sort of Parameter class to hold the current intonation parameters, that should be pretty simple.

Would it be possible for the synthesis engine to ramp up the intonation at the end of a sentence whenever there is a question mark? I don't think I have seen a synthesis engine, yet to do this, and it seems like such a small/easy thing to do.

Perhaps I'll revisit this when I eventually take machine learning classes.

Thank you,
John Delaney

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

Yes, you are correct. All those server methods are yet to be implemented. Currently the server just supports speaking text with the defaults that were taken from Monet. This is certainly one area that could use some filling out, and any contribution would be more than welcome.

Best,
Dalmazio

On 2009-11-04, at 5:54 PM, John Delaney wrote:

Thank you all for your help. I have switched to using the server method because its very easy and functional. Am I mistaken, though that many of the parameters such as pitch and intonation have not yet been implemented to the server? I am looking at the server and all the get/set methods have return zero. I suppose I will need to impliment those if this is the case.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

Have a look at Linked Frameworks section in the Xcode Groups & Files pane. I've found in the past that for setting up the project on a different system, I've often had to remove the custom frameworks (Tube and GnuSpeech) and then add them again, so Xcode correctly picks up the new locations -- unless they're in standard system Framework folders. If you would like additional information on Xcode, have a look at the book "Xcode Unleashed" -- there may be others.

Also, you might just want to confirm that when you open up the build options panel (CMD-i), select the Build tab, and some ways down you will see in the "Search Paths" section the option: Framework Paths, specifically, double-click and see that it's set to "$(SRCROOT)/.." with the "recursive" switch turned on. This is set for all the individual xcode projects. This expands out to show you the actual additional paths used to search and link against. $(SRCROOT) is configured on my system to point to "../.." in the General tab of the project info panel (CMD-i). Alternatively, you can just use hard paths in specifying the header/framework paths.

If you have the frameworks installed, then you might want to go to where they are (/Library/Frameworks/GnuSpeech.framework and /Library/Frameworks/Tube.framework) and rename them (say with .original appended), and then create links in /Library/Frameworks/ to the compiled frameworks in your project directory. You only really need to do this if you think you will be modifying or experimenting with the Tube and GnuSpeech frameworks. That way apps pick up the latest changes to these frameworks, instead of using the previously installed frameworks.

Also, if you have problems, try opening up the Tube and GnuSpeech xcode projects, and build them separately. Then go back and try and build the various apps etc. that depend on them. This in the event of some odd Xcode project configuration settings.

If you've made any other changes to the build settings, I suggest downloading another copy of the distribution as a backup "reference-only" copy so you can compare against it to see if your build settings for any given project match. Accidental or experimental changes to some of these settings may result in warnings or even errors during compilation/linking.

Best,
Dalmazio

On 2009-11-04, at 12:06 PM, John Delaney wrote:

Ok, found the diagnostic info. I have the most recent build of GnuSpeech, and the applications do produce speech.

Also I have a question, I notice that in Xcode, rather than having the compiled frameworks, you have an xcode project of the framework. When I try to do that I get linking errors. How do you do include the uncompiled frameworks and then get them to compile? I've looked through all the settings and can't figure out the problem. Pardon my rookie questions.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

John,

Could you try installing the latest pre-compiled beta-release version and see if the various applications generate speech? Then we can hopefully rule out any sort of system configuration issue -- at least as far as the executable apps and libs are concerned.

Also, to get the backtrace of the segmentation fault, open Console, and show the Log List. Then scroll down and you should see under the headings DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION -> User Diagnostic Information -> <the crash file> or FILES -> ~/Library/Logs -> CrashReporter -> <the crash file>

Best,
Dalmazio

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Re: GNUSpeech Console Utility

2009-11-05T12:29:22Z

Hi John,

The original text-to-speech system on the NeXT, on which the port is based, did address the "question" intonation pattern.

The intonation patterns are affected by the punctuation and intonation control parameters. But, properly, only questions expecting the answer "Yes" or No", or statements expressing uncertainty that really have rising intonation at the end.

The rampant "up-talk" by the younger generation in Canada is an exception -- everything in "up-talk" gets a rising intonation at the end, perhaps a sign of insecurity in the speaker! :-).

Wh- questions don't show the rising intonation. The system did not make allowance for this distinction -- it would have required some grammatical analysis which we had not tackled, but it should be. It isn't just a matter of detecting the presence of words like "why", "when" "who", what", and "how" because it is fairly easy to frame a "Yes/No" question that also contains one or more of these words (for example: "Did you tell her when we were supposed to meet?").

The system also had regular statements and emphatic statements. There should have been a lot more, and the plan was to implement the whole of Michael Halliday's description of the intonation of British English (he wrote an excellent tutorial book, with accompanying taped examples: A course in spoken English: Intonation" -- Oxford U. Press 1970 SBN [sic] 19 453066 3).

The intonation system was tied to the metrical aspects of English described by a number of British linguists -- most notably Professor David Abercrombie who was at Edinburgh university. We carried out significant research at the U of Calgary on the rhythm and intonation of British English and this was used when we spun off Trillium Sound Research and built the original NeXT system. The rhythm and intonation were regarded as significantly effective features of the text-to-speech system, even though the research results and Halliday were only partially implemented. The speech was found to be much less tiring to listen to for long periods than, for example, DECTalk (which was based on MITalk developed at MIT: "From text to speech: the MITalk system," Allen, Hunnicutt & Klatt, Cambridge University Press, 1987 ISBN 0-521-30641-8)

Abercrombie's claim was that spoken British English had "a tendency towards isochrony". Specifically, spoken phrases and sentences could be split into "feet", rather like the bars in music, and the rhythmic "beat" falls on the first syllable of this unit (the stressed syllables dictate where the foot boundaries fall). A tendency towards isochrony then asserts that the beats fall at more regular intervals than would be expected from the differing number of syllables in each foot, and this is because the length of the syllables becomes shorter as the number increase. American linguists are skeptical about this idea but our analyses of a corpus of English spoken for purposes of illustrating intonation revealed that such a tendency definitely exists. You'd think it was an easy enough question to resolve one way or the other, but if you think this you don't know linguists! :-)

There are several descriptions of the rhythm work we did. The most complete one, though very academic, is:

JASSEM, W., HILL, D.R. & WITTEN, I.H. (1984) Isochrony in English speech: its statistical validity and linguistic relevance. Pattern, Process and Function in Discourse Phonology (collection ed. Davydd Gibbon), Berlin: de Gruyter, 203-225 (J)

but there is a shorter version that summarises the actual research data:

HILL, D.R., WITTEN I.H. and Jassem, W. (1977) Some results from a preliminary study of British English speech rhythm which was presented at 94th. Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Miami, Dec 12-16 but only appears as a summary in the proceedings. The full text available as U of Calgary Computer Science Dept. Report 78/26/5

I could send you a draft electronic copy as I am currently working on putting a copy on the web but there's also a hard copy version published as a departmental report.

The intonation work is best accessed through Halliday's book though Craig Taube-Schock's thesis (for which he received the Governor General of Canada's Gold Medal) reports the initial experimental work we did to validate and extend Halliday's descriptions for purposes of computer speech intonation:

"Synthesizing intonation for computer speech output" Craig-Richard Taube-Schock. M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, The University of Calgary 1993, 109 pages.

It is available from Proquest (who archive all university theses in North America) though they have the date as 1994. In implementing the intonation for the TextToSpeech kit, a number of improvements were made that are not written up in the thesis, especially the smoothing of contours.

From the original Developer TextToSpeech kit manual:

The Parser Module takes the text supplied by the client application (using the speakText:
or speakStream: methods) and converts it into an equivalent phonetic representation. The
input text is parsed, where possible, into sentences and tone groups. This subdivision is done
primarily by examining the punctuation. Each word or number or symbol within a tone group
is converted to a phoneme string which indicates how the word is to be pronounced. The
pronunciation is retrieved from one of five pronunciation knowledge bases.
The Parser must also deal with text entered in any of the special text modes. For example, a
word may be marked in letter mode, which means the word is to spelled out a letter at a time, or
in emphasis mode, which means the word is to receive special emphasis by lengthening it and
altering its pitch. The Parser marks the phonetic representation appropriately in these cases.

...

The system attempts to speak the text as a person would. Punctuation is not pronounced, but
is used as guide to pronounce the text it marks. For example, a period that marks the end of
sentence is not pronounced, but does indicate that a pause occurs before proceeding to the next
sentence.

A question mark at the end of a sentence caused the rising intonation of a question to be selected. Another special mode allowed punctuation to be spoken, rather than used to control how the text was spoken. I have put the whole manual on my university web site where it is easier to find than digging through the savannah repository, though it doesn't really address these issues completely (but is useful for many purposes, and you will find it useful background). Go to:

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill

Select "Published papers" from the left-hand menu, scroll down to section "E. Other publications" and you'll find a whole lot of Gnuspeech-related documents there. The sixth item is "Manual for the original NeXT Developer TextToSpeech kit". Clicking the link witll allow you to download a .pdf file of the whole manual. The five previous links in that section are also useful references for Gnuspeech and will help you in your work on porting the server.

Many thanks for your willingness to get involved. Very much appreciated. Feel free to bug me with any questions/problems that come up.

HTH. All good wishes.

david

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On Nov 4, 2009, at 6:21 PM, John Delaney wrote:

Here I was trying to implement a speech synthesis API for a graduate musical synthesis class, and now I'm getting roped into actually working on the project. I'll implement some sort of Parameter class to hold the current intonation parameters, that should be pretty simple.

Would it be possible for the synthesis engine to ramp up the intonation at the end of a sentence whenever there is a question mark? I don't think I have seen a synthesis engine, yet to do this, and it seems like such a small/easy thing to do.

Perhaps I'll revisit this when I eventually take machine learning classes.

Thank you,
John Delaney

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

Yes, you are correct. All those server methods are yet to be implemented. Currently the server just supports speaking text with the defaults that were taken from Monet. This is certainly one area that could use some filling out, and any contribution would be more than welcome.

Best,
Dalmazio

On 2009-11-04, at 5:54 PM, John Delaney wrote:

Thank you all for your help. I have switched to using the server method because its very easy and functional. Am I mistaken, though that many of the parameters such as pitch and intonation have not yet been implemented to the server? I am looking at the server and all the get/set methods have return zero. I suppose I will need to impliment those if this is the case.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

Have a look at Linked Frameworks section in the Xcode Groups & Files pane. I've found in the past that for setting up the project on a different system, I've often had to remove the custom frameworks (Tube and GnuSpeech) and then add them again, so Xcode correctly picks up the new locations -- unless they're in standard system Framework folders. If you would like additional information on Xcode, have a look at the book "Xcode Unleashed" -- there may be others.

[snip]

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Re: GNUSpeech Console Utility

2009-11-04T20:42:50Z

One thing I've noticed is that the syntax in the speechserverprotocol is different from the notation used by the eventlist and monet, ie:

    notionalPitch
    pretonicRange
    pretonicLift
    tonicRange
    tonicMovement

are named differently than:
    speed;
    elasticity;
    intonation;
    voiceType;
    pitchOffset;
    volume;
    balance;

I'm not sure which variables correspond to what, so I'll take a good first stab and try to get things working for my purposes now.

Thank you,
John Delaney

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:21 PM, John Delaney <a.pet.rock@...> wrote:

Here I was trying to implement a speech synthesis API for a graduate musical synthesis class, and now I'm getting roped into actually working on the project. I'll implement some sort of Parameter class to hold the current intonation parameters, that should be pretty simple.

Would it be possible for the synthesis engine to ramp up the intonation at the end of a sentence whenever there is a question mark? I don't think I have seen a synthesis engine, yet to do this, and it seems like such a small/easy thing to do.

Perhaps I'll revisit this when I eventually take machine learning classes.

Thank you,
John Delaney

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

Yes, you are correct. All those server methods are yet to be implemented. Currently the server just supports speaking text with the defaults that were taken from Monet. This is certainly one area that could use some filling out, and any contribution would be more than welcome.

Best,
Dalmazio

On 2009-11-04, at 5:54 PM, John Delaney wrote:

Thank you all for your help. I have switched to using the server method because its very easy and functional. Am I mistaken, though that many of the parameters such as pitch and intonation have not yet been implemented to the server? I am looking at the server and all the get/set methods have return zero. I suppose I will need to impliment those if this is the case.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

Have a look at Linked Frameworks section in the Xcode Groups & Files pane. I've found in the past that for setting up the project on a different system, I've often had to remove the custom frameworks (Tube and GnuSpeech) and then add them again, so Xcode correctly picks up the new locations -- unless they're in standard system Framework folders. If you would like additional information on Xcode, have a look at the book "Xcode Unleashed" -- there may be others.

Also, you might just want to confirm that when you open up the build options panel (CMD-i), select the Build tab, and some ways down you will see in the "Search Paths" section the option: Framework Paths, specifically, double-click and see that it's set to "$(SRCROOT)/.." with the "recursive" switch turned on. This is set for all the individual xcode projects. This expands out to show you the actual additional paths used to search and link against. $(SRCROOT) is configured on my system to point to "../.." in the General tab of the project info panel (CMD-i). Alternatively, you can just use hard paths in specifying the header/framework paths.

If you have the frameworks installed, then you might want to go to where they are (/Library/Frameworks/GnuSpeech.framework and /Library/Frameworks/Tube.framework) and rename them (say with .original appended), and then create links in /Library/Frameworks/ to the compiled frameworks in your project directory. You only really need to do this if you think you will be modifying or experimenting with the Tube and GnuSpeech frameworks. That way apps pick up the latest changes to these frameworks, instead of using the previously installed frameworks.

Also, if you have problems, try opening up the Tube and GnuSpeech xcode projects, and build them separately. Then go back and try and build the various apps etc. that depend on them. This in the event of some odd Xcode project configuration settings.

If you've made any other changes to the build settings, I suggest downloading another copy of the distribution as a backup "reference-only" copy so you can compare against it to see if your build settings for any given project match. Accidental or experimental changes to some of these settings may result in warnings or even errors during compilation/linking.

Best,
Dalmazio

On 2009-11-04, at 12:06 PM, John Delaney wrote:

Ok, found the diagnostic info. I have the most recent build of GnuSpeech, and the applications do produce speech.

Also I have a question, I notice that in Xcode, rather than having the compiled frameworks, you have an xcode project of the framework. When I try to do that I get linking errors. How do you do include the uncompiled frameworks and then get them to compile? I've looked through all the settings and can't figure out the problem. Pardon my rookie questions.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

John,

Could you try installing the latest pre-compiled beta-release version and see if the various applications generate speech? Then we can hopefully rule out any sort of system configuration issue -- at least as far as the executable apps and libs are concerned.

Also, to get the backtrace of the segmentation fault, open Console, and show the Log List. Then scroll down and you should see under the headings DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION -> User Diagnostic Information -> <the crash file> or FILES -> ~/Library/Logs -> CrashReporter -> <the crash file>

Best,
Dalmazio

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Re: GNUSpeech Console Utility

2009-11-04T18:21:37Z

Here I was trying to implement a speech synthesis API for a graduate musical synthesis class, and now I'm getting roped into actually working on the project. I'll implement some sort of Parameter class to hold the current intonation parameters, that should be pretty simple.

Would it be possible for the synthesis engine to ramp up the intonation at the end of a sentence whenever there is a question mark? I don't think I have seen a synthesis engine, yet to do this, and it seems like such a small/easy thing to do.

Perhaps I'll revisit this when I eventually take machine learning classes.

Thank you,
John Delaney

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

Yes, you are correct. All those server methods are yet to be implemented. Currently the server just supports speaking text with the defaults that were taken from Monet. This is certainly one area that could use some filling out, and any contribution would be more than welcome.

Best,
Dalmazio

On 2009-11-04, at 5:54 PM, John Delaney wrote:

Thank you all for your help. I have switched to using the server method because its very easy and functional. Am I mistaken, though that many of the parameters such as pitch and intonation have not yet been implemented to the server? I am looking at the server and all the get/set methods have return zero. I suppose I will need to impliment those if this is the case.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

Have a look at Linked Frameworks section in the Xcode Groups & Files pane. I've found in the past that for setting up the project on a different system, I've often had to remove the custom frameworks (Tube and GnuSpeech) and then add them again, so Xcode correctly picks up the new locations -- unless they're in standard system Framework folders. If you would like additional information on Xcode, have a look at the book "Xcode Unleashed" -- there may be others.

Also, you might just want to confirm that when you open up the build options panel (CMD-i), select the Build tab, and some ways down you will see in the "Search Paths" section the option: Framework Paths, specifically, double-click and see that it's set to "$(SRCROOT)/.." with the "recursive" switch turned on. This is set for all the individual xcode projects. This expands out to show you the actual additional paths used to search and link against. $(SRCROOT) is configured on my system to point to "../.." in the General tab of the project info panel (CMD-i). Alternatively, you can just use hard paths in specifying the header/framework paths.

If you have the frameworks installed, then you might want to go to where they are (/Library/Frameworks/GnuSpeech.framework and /Library/Frameworks/Tube.framework) and rename them (say with .original appended), and then create links in /Library/Frameworks/ to the compiled frameworks in your project directory. You only really need to do this if you think you will be modifying or experimenting with the Tube and GnuSpeech frameworks. That way apps pick up the latest changes to these frameworks, instead of using the previously installed frameworks.

Also, if you have problems, try opening up the Tube and GnuSpeech xcode projects, and build them separately. Then go back and try and build the various apps etc. that depend on them. This in the event of some odd Xcode project configuration settings.

If you've made any other changes to the build settings, I suggest downloading another copy of the distribution as a backup "reference-only" copy so you can compare against it to see if your build settings for any given project match. Accidental or experimental changes to some of these settings may result in warnings or even errors during compilation/linking.

Best,
Dalmazio

On 2009-11-04, at 12:06 PM, John Delaney wrote:

Ok, found the diagnostic info. I have the most recent build of GnuSpeech, and the applications do produce speech.

Also I have a question, I notice that in Xcode, rather than having the compiled frameworks, you have an xcode project of the framework. When I try to do that I get linking errors. How do you do include the uncompiled frameworks and then get them to compile? I've looked through all the settings and can't figure out the problem. Pardon my rookie questions.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

John,

Could you try installing the latest pre-compiled beta-release version and see if the various applications generate speech? Then we can hopefully rule out any sort of system configuration issue -- at least as far as the executable apps and libs are concerned.

Also, to get the backtrace of the segmentation fault, open Console, and show the Log List. Then scroll down and you should see under the headings DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION -> User Diagnostic Information -> <the crash file> or FILES -> ~/Library/Logs -> CrashReporter -> <the crash file>

Best,
Dalmazio

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Re: GNUSpeech Console Utility

2009-11-04T17:09:14Z

Yes, you are correct. All those server methods are yet to be implemented. Currently the server just supports speaking text with the defaults that were taken from Monet. This is certainly one area that could use some filling out, and any contribution would be more than welcome.

Best,

Dalmazio

On 2009-11-04, at 5:54 PM, John Delaney wrote:

Thank you all for your help. I have switched to using the server method because its very easy and functional. Am I mistaken, though that many of the parameters such as pitch and intonation have not yet been implemented to the server? I am looking at the server and all the get/set methods have return zero. I suppose I will need to impliment those if this is the case.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

Have a look at Linked Frameworks section in the Xcode Groups & Files pane. I've found in the past that for setting up the project on a different system, I've often had to remove the custom frameworks (Tube and GnuSpeech) and then add them again, so Xcode correctly picks up the new locations -- unless they're in standard system Framework folders. If you would like additional information on Xcode, have a look at the book "Xcode Unleashed" -- there may be others.

Also, you might just want to confirm that when you open up the build options panel (CMD-i), select the Build tab, and some ways down you will see in the "Search Paths" section the option: Framework Paths, specifically, double-click and see that it's set to "$(SRCROOT)/.." with the "recursive" switch turned on. This is set for all the individual xcode projects. This expands out to show you the actual additional paths used to search and link against. $(SRCROOT) is configured on my system to point to "../.." in the General tab of the project info panel (CMD-i). Alternatively, you can just use hard paths in specifying the header/framework paths.

If you have the frameworks installed, then you might want to go to where they are (/Library/Frameworks/GnuSpeech.framework and /Library/Frameworks/Tube.framework) and rename them (say with .original appended), and then create links in /Library/Frameworks/ to the compiled frameworks in your project directory. You only really need to do this if you think you will be modifying or experimenting with the Tube and GnuSpeech frameworks. That way apps pick up the latest changes to these frameworks, instead of using the previously installed frameworks.

Also, if you have problems, try opening up the Tube and GnuSpeech xcode projects, and build them separately. Then go back and try and build the various apps etc. that depend on them. This in the event of some odd Xcode project configuration settings.

If you've made any other changes to the build settings, I suggest downloading another copy of the distribution as a backup "reference-only" copy so you can compare against it to see if your build settings for any given project match. Accidental or experimental changes to some of these settings may result in warnings or even errors during compilation/linking.

Best,
Dalmazio

On 2009-11-04, at 12:06 PM, John Delaney wrote:

Ok, found the diagnostic info. I have the most recent build of GnuSpeech, and the applications do produce speech.

Also I have a question, I notice that in Xcode, rather than having the compiled frameworks, you have an xcode project of the framework. When I try to do that I get linking errors. How do you do include the uncompiled frameworks and then get them to compile? I've looked through all the settings and can't figure out the problem. Pardon my rookie questions.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

John,

Could you try installing the latest pre-compiled beta-release version and see if the various applications generate speech? Then we can hopefully rule out any sort of system configuration issue -- at least as far as the executable apps and libs are concerned.

Also, to get the backtrace of the segmentation fault, open Console, and show the Log List. Then scroll down and you should see under the headings DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION -> User Diagnostic Information -> <the crash file> or FILES -> ~/Library/Logs -> CrashReporter -> <the crash file>

Best,
Dalmazio

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Re: GNUSpeech Console Utility

2009-11-04T16:54:00Z

Thank you all for your help. I have switched to using the server method because its very easy and functional. Am I mistaken, though that many of the parameters such as pitch and intonation have not yet been implemented to the server? I am looking at the server and all the get/set methods have return zero. I suppose I will need to impliment those if this is the case.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

Have a look at Linked Frameworks section in the Xcode Groups & Files pane. I've found in the past that for setting up the project on a different system, I've often had to remove the custom frameworks (Tube and GnuSpeech) and then add them again, so Xcode correctly picks up the new locations -- unless they're in standard system Framework folders. If you would like additional information on Xcode, have a look at the book "Xcode Unleashed" -- there may be others.

Also, you might just want to confirm that when you open up the build options panel (CMD-i), select the Build tab, and some ways down you will see in the "Search Paths" section the option: Framework Paths, specifically, double-click and see that it's set to "$(SRCROOT)/.." with the "recursive" switch turned on. This is set for all the individual xcode projects. This expands out to show you the actual additional paths used to search and link against. $(SRCROOT) is configured on my system to point to "../.." in the General tab of the project info panel (CMD-i). Alternatively, you can just use hard paths in specifying the header/framework paths.

If you have the frameworks installed, then you might want to go to where they are (/Library/Frameworks/GnuSpeech.framework and /Library/Frameworks/Tube.framework) and rename them (say with .original appended), and then create links in /Library/Frameworks/ to the compiled frameworks in your project directory. You only really need to do this if you think you will be modifying or experimenting with the Tube and GnuSpeech frameworks. That way apps pick up the latest changes to these frameworks, instead of using the previously installed frameworks.

Also, if you have problems, try opening up the Tube and GnuSpeech xcode projects, and build them separately. Then go back and try and build the various apps etc. that depend on them. This in the event of some odd Xcode project configuration settings.

If you've made any other changes to the build settings, I suggest downloading another copy of the distribution as a backup "reference-only" copy so you can compare against it to see if your build settings for any given project match. Accidental or experimental changes to some of these settings may result in warnings or even errors during compilation/linking.

Best,
Dalmazio

On 2009-11-04, at 12:06 PM, John Delaney wrote:

Ok, found the diagnostic info. I have the most recent build of GnuSpeech, and the applications do produce speech.

Also I have a question, I notice that in Xcode, rather than having the compiled frameworks, you have an xcode project of the framework. When I try to do that I get linking errors. How do you do include the uncompiled frameworks and then get them to compile? I've looked through all the settings and can't figure out the problem. Pardon my rookie questions.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

John,

Could you try installing the latest pre-compiled beta-release version and see if the various applications generate speech? Then we can hopefully rule out any sort of system configuration issue -- at least as far as the executable apps and libs are concerned.

Also, to get the backtrace of the segmentation fault, open Console, and show the Log List. Then scroll down and you should see under the headings DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION -> User Diagnostic Information -> <the crash file> or FILES -> ~/Library/Logs -> CrashReporter -> <the crash file>

Best,
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Re: GNUSpeech Console Utility

2009-11-04T12:37:05Z

Have a look at Linked Frameworks section in the Xcode Groups & Files pane. I've found in the past that for setting up the project on a different system, I've often had to remove the custom frameworks (Tube and GnuSpeech) and then add them again, so Xcode correctly picks up the new locations -- unless they're in standard system Framework folders. If you would like additional information on Xcode, have a look at the book "Xcode Unleashed" -- there may be others.

Also, you might just want to confirm that when you open up the build options panel (CMD-i), select the Build tab, and some ways down you will see in the "Search Paths" section the option: Framework Paths, specifically, double-click and see that it's set to "$(SRCROOT)/.." with the "recursive" switch turned on. This is set for all the individual xcode projects. This expands out to show you the actual additional paths used to search and link against. $(SRCROOT) is configured on my system to point to "../.." in the General tab of the project info panel (CMD-i). Alternatively, you can just use hard paths in specifying the header/framework paths.

If you have the frameworks installed, then you might want to go to where they are (/Library/Frameworks/GnuSpeech.framework and /Library/Frameworks/Tube.framework) and rename them (say with .original appended), and then create links in /Library/Frameworks/ to the compiled frameworks in your project directory. You only really need to do this if you think you will be modifying or experimenting with the Tube and GnuSpeech frameworks. That way apps pick up the latest changes to these frameworks, instead of using the previously installed frameworks.

Also, if you have problems, try opening up the Tube and GnuSpeech xcode projects, and build them separately. Then go back and try and build the various apps etc. that depend on them. This in the event of some odd Xcode project configuration settings.

If you've made any other changes to the build settings, I suggest downloading another copy of the distribution as a backup "reference-only" copy so you can compare against it to see if your build settings for any given project match. Accidental or experimental changes to some of these settings may result in warnings or even errors during compilation/linking.

Best,

Dalmazio

On 2009-11-04, at 12:06 PM, John Delaney wrote:

Ok, found the diagnostic info. I have the most recent build of GnuSpeech, and the applications do produce speech.

Also I have a question, I notice that in Xcode, rather than having the compiled frameworks, you have an xcode project of the framework. When I try to do that I get linking errors. How do you do include the uncompiled frameworks and then get them to compile? I've looked through all the settings and can't figure out the problem. Pardon my rookie questions.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

John,

Could you try installing the latest pre-compiled beta-release version and see if the various applications generate speech? Then we can hopefully rule out any sort of system configuration issue -- at least as far as the executable apps and libs are concerned.

Also, to get the backtrace of the segmentation fault, open Console, and show the Log List. Then scroll down and you should see under the headings DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION -> User Diagnostic Information -> <the crash file> or FILES -> ~/Library/Logs -> CrashReporter -> <the crash file>

Best,
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Re: GNUSpeech Console Utility

2009-11-04T00:17:51Z

John,

Could you try installing the latest pre-compiled beta-release version and see if the various applications generate speech? Then we can hopefully rule out any sort of system configuration issue -- at least as far as the executable apps and libs are concerned.

Also, to get the backtrace of the segmentation fault, open Console, and show the Log List. Then scroll down and you should see under the headings DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION -> User Diagnostic Information -> <the crash file> or FILES -> ~/Library/Logs -> CrashReporter -> <the crash file>

Best,

Dalmazio

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From: Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...>
Date: November 3, 2009 9:49:51 PM MST
To: gnuspeech-contact@...
Subject: Re: [gnuspeech-contact] GNUSpeech Console Utility

Hi John,

If you want to use the GnuSpeech server (the recommended way), then you need to setup a basic distributed objects connection with the server. This can be done in just a couple lines of code. There is an example in the applications directory called GnuTTSClient that does exactly this -- it is intended to be a bare-bones application to show how to connect and send messages to the server and have text synthesized. (Your main class will need to conform to the GnuSpeechServerProtocol which can be found in the GnuSpeech Server project directory -- just drop this header into your project directory -- but this should become apparent after examining the GnuTTSClient source).

If you don't want to use the GnuSpeech server then I assume you copied over from the GnuSpeech server project directory the classes and headers, PhoneToSpeech, and TextToSpeech and embedded them in your project. After making the modifications that Marcelo suggested, if this still doesn't work for you, then check some of your build settings (for example garbage collection should not be set to 'required'), and maybe send some additional diagnostic messages from the Console, including the backtrace from the segmentation fault.

Best,
Dalmazio

[...]

Thank you Marcelo,

Wow the screen output is really cool! But I'm still not getting sound, and still getting a seg fault at the end. Is there a sound setting I'm missing?

Here is the output at the end:
2009-11-03 16:21:11.555 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 0 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset:    0.00, ruleTempo: 1.000, #                  # Rule 30, duration: 163.63, beat: 113.54
2009-11-03 16:21:11.556 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 1 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 113.54, ruleTempo: 1.000, h
2009-11-03 16:21:11.556 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 2 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 1, onset: 113.54, ruleTempo: 1.000, e                  # Rule 42, duration:   86.69, beat: 180.34
2009-11-03 16:21:11.557 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 1 tempo: 0.912, marked: 0, last: 0, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.557 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 3 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 180.34, ruleTempo: 1.000, l                  # Rule 42, duration:   78.47, beat: 264.69
2009-11-03 16:21:11.558 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 4 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 264.69, ruleTempo: 1.000, uh                 # Rule 32, duration:   87.13, beat: 338.40
2009-11-03 16:21:11.558 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 5 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 338.40, ruleTempo: 1.000, uu                 # Rule 42, duration:   96.18, beat: 433.24
2009-11-03 16:21:11.559 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 2 tempo: 0.942, marked: 0, last: 0, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.559 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 6 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 433.24, ruleTempo: 1.000, w                  # Rule 42, duration: 108.69, beat: 531.74
2009-11-03 16:21:11.560 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 7 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 531.74, ruleTempo: 1.000, er                 # Rule 42, duration: 104.97, beat: 638.99
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 8 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 638.99, ruleTempo: 1.000, r                  # Rule 42, duration:   86.40, beat: 739.28
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 9 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 739.28, ruleTempo: 1.000, ll                 # Rule 47, duration:   89.26, beat: 846.21
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 10 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 846.21, ruleTempo: 1.000, d                  # Rule 21, duration: 170.45, beat: 1016.62
2009-11-03 16:21:11.562 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 3 tempo: 0.991, marked: 1, last: 1, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.562 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 11 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1016.62, ruleTempo: 1.000, t'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.563 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 12 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1016.62, ruleTempo: 1.000, e'                 # Rule 24, duration: 227.35, beat: 1207.80
2009-11-03 16:21:11.563 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 13 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1207.80, ruleTempo: 1.000, k'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.564 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 14 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1207.80, ruleTempo: 1.000, s'                 # Rule 18, duration: 202.33, beat: 1445.70
2009-11-03 16:21:11.564 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 15 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1445.70, ruleTempo: 1.000, t'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.565 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 16 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1445.70, ruleTempo: 1.000, #'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.565 tst_obc[1667:10b] < printDataStructures:
2009-11-03 16:21:11.566 tst_obc[1667:10b] sample rate: 22050.000000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.567 tst_obc[1667:10b] format id: 6c70636d (lpcm)
2009-11-03 16:21:11.567 tst_obc[1667:10b] format flags: 1c
2009-11-03 16:21:11.568 tst_obc[1667:10b] bytes per packet: 2
2009-11-03 16:21:11.569 tst_obc[1667:10b] frames per packet: 1
2009-11-03 16:21:11.569 tst_obc[1667:10b] bytes per frame: 2
2009-11-03 16:21:11.570 tst_obc[1667:10b] channels per frame: 1
2009-11-03 16:21:11.570 tst_obc[1667:10b] bits per channel: 16
initializeConversion(), sampleRateConverter.maximumSampleValue: 0
2009-11-03 16:21:11.645 tst_obc[1667:10b] number of samples:    32928
2009-11-03 16:21:11.646 tst_obc[1667:10b] maximum sample value:    0.0011
2009-11-03 16:21:11.646 tst_obc[1667:10b] scale:            29971423.7842
2009-11-03 16:21:11.652 tst_obc[1667:10b] dealloc, free(inputData)
Segmentation fault
logout

Thank you,
John Delaney

From: John Delaney <a.pet.rock@...>
Date: November 4, 2009 12:08:50 AM MST
To: Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...>
Cc: gnuspeech-contact@...
Subject: Re: [gnuspeech-contact] GNUSpeech Console Utility

I recompiled the GNUSpeech Framework so that it referenced my local user library. Garbage collection is off, Instruction scheduling is set to off, compiling to OSX 10.5, using GCC 4.2. I get these errors on the console, I assume before the seg fault. I tried searching for them on my hard drive and they are nowhere to be found. Is this because I am not using the most recent version of Foundation?

Attaching to program: `/Users/johndelaney/Code/tst_obc/build/Debug/tst_obc', process 3303.
warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/ah_private.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/../../../frmks/auverse/src/libah/ah_private.c".

warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/ah_cl.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/../../../frmks/auverse/src/libah/ah_cl.c".

warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/ah_serv.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/../../../frmks/auverse/src/libah/ah_serv.c".

warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/main.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/src/main.c".

warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/rbuffer.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/../../../frmks/auverse/src/rbuffer/rbuffer.c".

warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/megamix.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/src/megamix.c".

warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/resampler.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/../../../frmks/auverse/src/resampler/resampler.c".

warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/coreaudio.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/src/coreaudio.c".

warning: .o file "/Developer/usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin9/4.0.1/libgcc.a(_eprintf.o)" more recent than executable timestamp
[Switching to process 3303 thread 0x6e03]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

Hi John,

If you want to use the GnuSpeech server (the recommended way), then you need to setup a basic distributed objects connection with the server. This can be done in just a couple lines of code. There is an example in the applications directory called GnuTTSClient that does exactly this -- it is intended to be a bare-bones application to show how to connect and send messages to the server and have text synthesized. (Your main class will need to conform to the GnuSpeechServerProtocol which can be found in the GnuSpeech Server project directory -- just drop this header into your project directory -- but this should become apparent after examining the GnuTTSClient source).

If you don't want to use the GnuSpeech server then I assume you copied over from the GnuSpeech server project directory the classes and headers, PhoneToSpeech, and TextToSpeech and embedded them in your project. After making the modifications that Marcelo suggested, if this still doesn't work for you, then check some of your build settings (for example garbage collection should not be set to 'required'), and maybe send some additional diagnostic messages from the Console, including the backtrace from the segmentation fault.

Best,
Dalmazio

[...]

Thank you Marcelo,

Wow the screen output is really cool! But I'm still not getting sound, and still getting a seg fault at the end. Is there a sound setting I'm missing?

Here is the output at the end:
2009-11-03 16:21:11.555 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 0 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset:    0.00, ruleTempo: 1.000, #                  # Rule 30, duration: 163.63, beat: 113.54
2009-11-03 16:21:11.556 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 1 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 113.54, ruleTempo: 1.000, h
2009-11-03 16:21:11.556 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 2 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 1, onset: 113.54, ruleTempo: 1.000, e                  # Rule 42, duration:   86.69, beat: 180.34
2009-11-03 16:21:11.557 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 1 tempo: 0.912, marked: 0, last: 0, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.557 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 3 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 180.34, ruleTempo: 1.000, l                  # Rule 42, duration:   78.47, beat: 264.69
2009-11-03 16:21:11.558 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 4 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 264.69, ruleTempo: 1.000, uh                 # Rule 32, duration:   87.13, beat: 338.40
2009-11-03 16:21:11.558 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 5 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 338.40, ruleTempo: 1.000, uu                 # Rule 42, duration:   96.18, beat: 433.24
2009-11-03 16:21:11.559 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 2 tempo: 0.942, marked: 0, last: 0, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.559 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 6 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 433.24, ruleTempo: 1.000, w                  # Rule 42, duration: 108.69, beat: 531.74
2009-11-03 16:21:11.560 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 7 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 531.74, ruleTempo: 1.000, er                 # Rule 42, duration: 104.97, beat: 638.99
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 8 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 638.99, ruleTempo: 1.000, r                  # Rule 42, duration:   86.40, beat: 739.28
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 9 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 739.28, ruleTempo: 1.000, ll                 # Rule 47, duration:   89.26, beat: 846.21
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 10 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 846.21, ruleTempo: 1.000, d                  # Rule 21, duration: 170.45, beat: 1016.62
2009-11-03 16:21:11.562 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 3 tempo: 0.991, marked: 1, last: 1, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.562 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 11 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1016.62, ruleTempo: 1.000, t'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.563 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 12 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1016.62, ruleTempo: 1.000, e'                 # Rule 24, duration: 227.35, beat: 1207.80
2009-11-03 16:21:11.563 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 13 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1207.80, ruleTempo: 1.000, k'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.564 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 14 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1207.80, ruleTempo: 1.000, s'                 # Rule 18, duration: 202.33, beat: 1445.70
2009-11-03 16:21:11.564 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 15 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1445.70, ruleTempo: 1.000, t'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.565 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 16 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1445.70, ruleTempo: 1.000, #'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.565 tst_obc[1667:10b] < printDataStructures:
2009-11-03 16:21:11.566 tst_obc[1667:10b] sample rate: 22050.000000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.567 tst_obc[1667:10b] format id: 6c70636d (lpcm)
2009-11-03 16:21:11.567 tst_obc[1667:10b] format flags: 1c
2009-11-03 16:21:11.568 tst_obc[1667:10b] bytes per packet: 2
2009-11-03 16:21:11.569 tst_obc[1667:10b] frames per packet: 1
2009-11-03 16:21:11.569 tst_obc[1667:10b] bytes per frame: 2
2009-11-03 16:21:11.570 tst_obc[1667:10b] channels per frame: 1
2009-11-03 16:21:11.570 tst_obc[1667:10b] bits per channel: 16
initializeConversion(), sampleRateConverter.maximumSampleValue: 0
2009-11-03 16:21:11.645 tst_obc[1667:10b] number of samples:    32928
2009-11-03 16:21:11.646 tst_obc[1667:10b] maximum sample value:    0.0011
2009-11-03 16:21:11.646 tst_obc[1667:10b] scale:            29971423.7842
2009-11-03 16:21:11.652 tst_obc[1667:10b] dealloc, free(inputData)
Segmentation fault
logout

Thank you,
John Delaney

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Re: GNUSpeech Console Utility

2009-11-03T23:08:50Z

I recompiled the GNUSpeech Framework so that it referenced my local user library. Garbage collection is off, Instruction scheduling is set to off, compiling to OSX 10.5, using GCC 4.2. I get these errors on the console, I assume before the seg fault. I tried searching for them on my hard drive and they are nowhere to be found. Is this because I am not using the most recent version of Foundation?

Attaching to program: `/Users/johndelaney/Code/tst_obc/build/Debug/tst_obc', process 3303.
warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/ah_private.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/../../../frmks/auverse/src/libah/ah_private.c".

warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/ah_cl.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/../../../frmks/auverse/src/libah/ah_cl.c".

warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/ah_serv.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/../../../frmks/auverse/src/libah/ah_serv.c".

warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/main.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/src/main.c".

warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/rbuffer.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/../../../frmks/auverse/src/rbuffer/rbuffer.c".

warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/megamix.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/src/megamix.c".

warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/resampler.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/../../../frmks/auverse/src/resampler/resampler.c".

warning: Could not find object file "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/build/ahs.build/Release FAT/ah_hermes.build/Objects-normal/i386/coreaudio.o" - no debug information available for "/Users/qdc/Projects/main/tools/hijack/ahs/src/coreaudio.c".

warning: .o file "/Developer/usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin9/4.0.1/libgcc.a(_eprintf.o)" more recent than executable timestamp
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda <dbrisinda@...> wrote:

Hi John,

If you want to use the GnuSpeech server (the recommended way), then you need to setup a basic distributed objects connection with the server. This can be done in just a couple lines of code. There is an example in the applications directory called GnuTTSClient that does exactly this -- it is intended to be a bare-bones application to show how to connect and send messages to the server and have text synthesized. (Your main class will need to conform to the GnuSpeechServerProtocol which can be found in the GnuSpeech Server project directory -- just drop this header into your project directory -- but this should become apparent after examining the GnuTTSClient source).

If you don't want to use the GnuSpeech server then I assume you copied over from the GnuSpeech server project directory the classes and headers, PhoneToSpeech, and TextToSpeech and embedded them in your project. After making the modifications that Marcelo suggested, if this still doesn't work for you, then check some of your build settings (for example garbage collection should not be set to 'required'), and maybe send some additional diagnostic messages from the Console, including the backtrace from the segmentation fault.

Best,
Dalmazio

[...]

Thank you Marcelo,

Wow the screen output is really cool! But I'm still not getting sound, and still getting a seg fault at the end. Is there a sound setting I'm missing?

Here is the output at the end:
2009-11-03 16:21:11.555 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 0 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset:    0.00, ruleTempo: 1.000, #                  # Rule 30, duration: 163.63, beat: 113.54
2009-11-03 16:21:11.556 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 1 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 113.54, ruleTempo: 1.000, h
2009-11-03 16:21:11.556 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 2 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 1, onset: 113.54, ruleTempo: 1.000, e                  # Rule 42, duration:   86.69, beat: 180.34
2009-11-03 16:21:11.557 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 1 tempo: 0.912, marked: 0, last: 0, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.557 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 3 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 180.34, ruleTempo: 1.000, l                  # Rule 42, duration:   78.47, beat: 264.69
2009-11-03 16:21:11.558 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 4 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 264.69, ruleTempo: 1.000, uh                 # Rule 32, duration:   87.13, beat: 338.40
2009-11-03 16:21:11.558 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 5 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 338.40, ruleTempo: 1.000, uu                 # Rule 42, duration:   96.18, beat: 433.24
2009-11-03 16:21:11.559 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 2 tempo: 0.942, marked: 0, last: 0, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.559 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 6 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 433.24, ruleTempo: 1.000, w                  # Rule 42, duration: 108.69, beat: 531.74
2009-11-03 16:21:11.560 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 7 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 531.74, ruleTempo: 1.000, er                 # Rule 42, duration: 104.97, beat: 638.99
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 8 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 638.99, ruleTempo: 1.000, r                  # Rule 42, duration:   86.40, beat: 739.28
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 9 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 739.28, ruleTempo: 1.000, ll                 # Rule 47, duration:   89.26, beat: 846.21
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 10 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 846.21, ruleTempo: 1.000, d                  # Rule 21, duration: 170.45, beat: 1016.62
2009-11-03 16:21:11.562 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 3 tempo: 0.991, marked: 1, last: 1, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.562 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 11 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1016.62, ruleTempo: 1.000, t'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.563 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 12 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1016.62, ruleTempo: 1.000, e'                 # Rule 24, duration: 227.35, beat: 1207.80
2009-11-03 16:21:11.563 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 13 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1207.80, ruleTempo: 1.000, k'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.564 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 14 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1207.80, ruleTempo: 1.000, s'                 # Rule 18, duration: 202.33, beat: 1445.70
2009-11-03 16:21:11.564 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 15 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1445.70, ruleTempo: 1.000, t'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.565 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 16 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1445.70, ruleTempo: 1.000, #'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.565 tst_obc[1667:10b] < printDataStructures:
2009-11-03 16:21:11.566 tst_obc[1667:10b] sample rate: 22050.000000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.567 tst_obc[1667:10b] format id: 6c70636d (lpcm)
2009-11-03 16:21:11.567 tst_obc[1667:10b] format flags: 1c
2009-11-03 16:21:11.568 tst_obc[1667:10b] bytes per packet: 2
2009-11-03 16:21:11.569 tst_obc[1667:10b] frames per packet: 1
2009-11-03 16:21:11.569 tst_obc[1667:10b] bytes per frame: 2
2009-11-03 16:21:11.570 tst_obc[1667:10b] channels per frame: 1
2009-11-03 16:21:11.570 tst_obc[1667:10b] bits per channel: 16
initializeConversion(), sampleRateConverter.maximumSampleValue: 0
2009-11-03 16:21:11.645 tst_obc[1667:10b] number of samples:    32928
2009-11-03 16:21:11.646 tst_obc[1667:10b] maximum sample value:    0.0011
2009-11-03 16:21:11.646 tst_obc[1667:10b] scale:            29971423.7842
2009-11-03 16:21:11.652 tst_obc[1667:10b] dealloc, free(inputData)
Segmentation fault
logout

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Re: GNUSpeech Console Utility

2009-11-03T20:49:51Z

Hi John,

If you want to use the GnuSpeech server (the recommended way), then you need to setup a basic distributed objects connection with the server. This can be done in just a couple lines of code. There is an example in the applications directory called GnuTTSClient that does exactly this -- it is intended to be a bare-bones application to show how to connect and send messages to the server and have text synthesized. (Your main class will need to conform to the GnuSpeechServerProtocol which can be found in the GnuSpeech Server project directory -- just drop this header into your project directory -- but this should become apparent after examining the GnuTTSClient source).

If you don't want to use the GnuSpeech server then I assume you copied over from the GnuSpeech server project directory the classes and headers, PhoneToSpeech, and TextToSpeech and embedded them in your project. After making the modifications that Marcelo suggested, if this still doesn't work for you, then check some of your build settings (for example garbage collection should not be set to 'required'), and maybe send some additional diagnostic messages from the Console, including the backtrace from the segmentation fault.

Best,

Dalmazio

[...]

Thank you Marcelo,

Wow the screen output is really cool! But I'm still not getting sound, and still getting a seg fault at the end. Is there a sound setting I'm missing?

Here is the output at the end:
2009-11-03 16:21:11.555 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 0 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset:    0.00, ruleTempo: 1.000, #                  # Rule 30, duration: 163.63, beat: 113.54
2009-11-03 16:21:11.556 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 1 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 113.54, ruleTempo: 1.000, h
2009-11-03 16:21:11.556 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 2 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 1, onset: 113.54, ruleTempo: 1.000, e                  # Rule 42, duration:   86.69, beat: 180.34
2009-11-03 16:21:11.557 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 1 tempo: 0.912, marked: 0, last: 0, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.557 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 3 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 180.34, ruleTempo: 1.000, l                  # Rule 42, duration:   78.47, beat: 264.69
2009-11-03 16:21:11.558 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 4 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 264.69, ruleTempo: 1.000, uh                 # Rule 32, duration:   87.13, beat: 338.40
2009-11-03 16:21:11.558 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 5 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 338.40, ruleTempo: 1.000, uu                 # Rule 42, duration:   96.18, beat: 433.24
2009-11-03 16:21:11.559 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 2 tempo: 0.942, marked: 0, last: 0, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.559 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 6 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 433.24, ruleTempo: 1.000, w                  # Rule 42, duration: 108.69, beat: 531.74
2009-11-03 16:21:11.560 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 7 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 531.74, ruleTempo: 1.000, er                 # Rule 42, duration: 104.97, beat: 638.99
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 8 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 638.99, ruleTempo: 1.000, r                  # Rule 42, duration:   86.40, beat: 739.28
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 9 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 739.28, ruleTempo: 1.000, ll                 # Rule 47, duration:   89.26, beat: 846.21
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 10 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 846.21, ruleTempo: 1.000, d                  # Rule 21, duration: 170.45, beat: 1016.62
2009-11-03 16:21:11.562 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 3 tempo: 0.991, marked: 1, last: 1, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.562 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 11 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1016.62, ruleTempo: 1.000, t'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.563 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 12 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1016.62, ruleTempo: 1.000, e'                 # Rule 24, duration: 227.35, beat: 1207.80
2009-11-03 16:21:11.563 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 13 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1207.80, ruleTempo: 1.000, k'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.564 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 14 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1207.80, ruleTempo: 1.000, s'                 # Rule 18, duration: 202.33, beat: 1445.70
2009-11-03 16:21:11.564 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 15 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1445.70, ruleTempo: 1.000, t'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.565 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 16 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1445.70, ruleTempo: 1.000, #'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.565 tst_obc[1667:10b] < printDataStructures:
2009-11-03 16:21:11.566 tst_obc[1667:10b] sample rate: 22050.000000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.567 tst_obc[1667:10b] format id: 6c70636d (lpcm)
2009-11-03 16:21:11.567 tst_obc[1667:10b] format flags: 1c
2009-11-03 16:21:11.568 tst_obc[1667:10b] bytes per packet: 2
2009-11-03 16:21:11.569 tst_obc[1667:10b] frames per packet: 1
2009-11-03 16:21:11.569 tst_obc[1667:10b] bytes per frame: 2
2009-11-03 16:21:11.570 tst_obc[1667:10b] channels per frame: 1
2009-11-03 16:21:11.570 tst_obc[1667:10b] bits per channel: 16
initializeConversion(), sampleRateConverter.maximumSampleValue: 0
2009-11-03 16:21:11.645 tst_obc[1667:10b] number of samples:    32928
2009-11-03 16:21:11.646 tst_obc[1667:10b] maximum sample value:    0.0011
2009-11-03 16:21:11.646 tst_obc[1667:10b] scale:            29971423.7842
2009-11-03 16:21:11.652 tst_obc[1667:10b] dealloc, free(inputData)
Segmentation fault
logout

Thank you,
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Re: GNUSpeech Console Utility

2009-11-03T19:19:48Z

Ok, by not releasing the textToSpeech object, the seg fault went away. Now it makes sound, however, it only makes a chirp, a very small piece of the overall sound. I think I still must be missing something.

Thank you,
John Delaney

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:25 PM, John Delaney <a.pet.rock@...> wrote:

Thank you Marcelo,

Wow the screen output is really cool! But I'm still not getting sound, and still getting a seg fault at the end. Is there a sound setting I'm missing?

Here is the output at the end:
2009-11-03 16:21:11.555 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 0 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset:    0.00, ruleTempo: 1.000, #                  # Rule 30, duration: 163.63, beat: 113.54
2009-11-03 16:21:11.556 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 1 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 113.54, ruleTempo: 1.000, h
2009-11-03 16:21:11.556 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 2 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 1, onset: 113.54, ruleTempo: 1.000, e                  # Rule 42, duration:   86.69, beat: 180.34
2009-11-03 16:21:11.557 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 1 tempo: 0.912, marked: 0, last: 0, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.557 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 3 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 180.34, ruleTempo: 1.000, l                  # Rule 42, duration:   78.47, beat: 264.69
2009-11-03 16:21:11.558 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 4 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 264.69, ruleTempo: 1.000, uh                 # Rule 32, duration:   87.13, beat: 338.40
2009-11-03 16:21:11.558 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 5 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 338.40, ruleTempo: 1.000, uu                 # Rule 42, duration:   96.18, beat: 433.24
2009-11-03 16:21:11.559 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 2 tempo: 0.942, marked: 0, last: 0, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.559 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 6 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 433.24, ruleTempo: 1.000, w                  # Rule 42, duration: 108.69, beat: 531.74
2009-11-03 16:21:11.560 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 7 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 531.74, ruleTempo: 1.000, er                 # Rule 42, duration: 104.97, beat: 638.99
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 8 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 638.99, ruleTempo: 1.000, r                  # Rule 42, duration:   86.40, beat: 739.28
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 9 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 739.28, ruleTempo: 1.000, ll                 # Rule 47, duration:   89.26, beat: 846.21
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 10 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 846.21, ruleTempo: 1.000, d                  # Rule 21, duration: 170.45, beat: 1016.62
2009-11-03 16:21:11.562 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 3 tempo: 0.991, marked: 1, last: 1, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.562 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 11 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1016.62, ruleTempo: 1.000, t'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.563 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 12 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1016.62, ruleTempo: 1.000, e'                 # Rule 24, duration: 227.35, beat: 1207.80
2009-11-03 16:21:11.563 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 13 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1207.80, ruleTempo: 1.000, k'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.564 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 14 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1207.80, ruleTempo: 1.000, s'                 # Rule 18, duration: 202.33, beat: 1445.70
2009-11-03 16:21:11.564 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 15 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1445.70, ruleTempo: 1.000, t'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.565 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 16 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1445.70, ruleTempo: 1.000, #'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.565 tst_obc[1667:10b] < printDataStructures:
2009-11-03 16:21:11.566 tst_obc[1667:10b] sample rate: 22050.000000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.567 tst_obc[1667:10b] format id: 6c70636d (lpcm)
2009-11-03 16:21:11.567 tst_obc[1667:10b] format flags: 1c
2009-11-03 16:21:11.568 tst_obc[1667:10b] bytes per packet: 2
2009-11-03 16:21:11.569 tst_obc[1667:10b] frames per packet: 1
2009-11-03 16:21:11.569 tst_obc[1667:10b] bytes per frame: 2
2009-11-03 16:21:11.570 tst_obc[1667:10b] channels per frame: 1
2009-11-03 16:21:11.570 tst_obc[1667:10b] bits per channel: 16
initializeConversion(), sampleRateConverter.maximumSampleValue: 0
2009-11-03 16:21:11.645 tst_obc[1667:10b] number of samples:    32928
2009-11-03 16:21:11.646 tst_obc[1667:10b] maximum sample value:    0.0011
2009-11-03 16:21:11.646 tst_obc[1667:10b] scale:            29971423.7842
2009-11-03 16:21:11.652 tst_obc[1667:10b] dealloc, free(inputData)
Segmentation fault
logout

Thank you,
John Delaney

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Marcelo Yassunori Matuda <marcelo.matuda@...> wrote:
Hi John,

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:38 PM, John Delaney <a.pet.rock@...> wrote:
> Because I am a bit of a beginner, please let me know if because of my level
> of experience this email is inappropriate.

I am a newbie in ObjC too.

> Here is my very naive implementation:
> #import "TextToSpeech.h"
>
> int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {
>     NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
>
>     // insert code here...
>     NSLog(@"Hello, World!");
>
>     TextToSpeech * textToSpeech;
>     NSLog(@"0");
>     [textToSpeech init];
>
>     NSString * stext = @"hello world text";
>
>
>     [textToSpeech speakText:stext];
>
>
>     [textToSpeech dealloc];
>     //[phoneString dealloc];
>
>     [pool drain];
>     return 0;
> }

You need to allocate the memory first:

TextToSpeech *textToSpeech = [[TextToSpeech alloc] init];

And AFAIK you should use:

[textToSpeech release];

not dealloc.

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Re: GNUSpeech Console Utility

2009-11-03T16:25:38Z

Thank you Marcelo,

Wow the screen output is really cool! But I'm still not getting sound, and still getting a seg fault at the end. Is there a sound setting I'm missing?

Here is the output at the end:
2009-11-03 16:21:11.555 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 0 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset:    0.00, ruleTempo: 1.000, #                  # Rule 30, duration: 163.63, beat: 113.54
2009-11-03 16:21:11.556 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 1 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 113.54, ruleTempo: 1.000, h
2009-11-03 16:21:11.556 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 2 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 1, onset: 113.54, ruleTempo: 1.000, e                  # Rule 42, duration:   86.69, beat: 180.34
2009-11-03 16:21:11.557 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 1 tempo: 0.912, marked: 0, last: 0, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.557 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 3 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 180.34, ruleTempo: 1.000, l                  # Rule 42, duration:   78.47, beat: 264.69
2009-11-03 16:21:11.558 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 4 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 264.69, ruleTempo: 1.000, uh                 # Rule 32, duration:   87.13, beat: 338.40
2009-11-03 16:21:11.558 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 5 tempo: 0.912, syllable: 0, onset: 338.40, ruleTempo: 1.000, uu                 # Rule 42, duration:   96.18, beat: 433.24
2009-11-03 16:21:11.559 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 2 tempo: 0.942, marked: 0, last: 0, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.559 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 6 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 433.24, ruleTempo: 1.000, w                  # Rule 42, duration: 108.69, beat: 531.74
2009-11-03 16:21:11.560 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 7 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 531.74, ruleTempo: 1.000, er                 # Rule 42, duration: 104.97, beat: 638.99
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 8 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 638.99, ruleTempo: 1.000, r                  # Rule 42, duration:   86.40, beat: 739.28
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 9 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 739.28, ruleTempo: 1.000, ll                 # Rule 47, duration:   89.26, beat: 846.21
2009-11-03 16:21:11.561 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 10 tempo: 0.942, syllable: 0, onset: 846.21, ruleTempo: 1.000, d                  # Rule 21, duration: 170.45, beat: 1016.62
2009-11-03 16:21:11.562 tst_obc[1667:10b]   Foot 3 tempo: 0.991, marked: 1, last: 1, onset1: 0.000, onset2: 0.000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.562 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 11 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1016.62, ruleTempo: 1.000, t'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.563 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 12 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1016.62, ruleTempo: 1.000, e'                 # Rule 24, duration: 227.35, beat: 1207.80
2009-11-03 16:21:11.563 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 13 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1207.80, ruleTempo: 1.000, k'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.564 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 14 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1207.80, ruleTempo: 1.000, s'                 # Rule 18, duration: 202.33, beat: 1445.70
2009-11-03 16:21:11.564 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 15 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1445.70, ruleTempo: 1.000, t'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.565 tst_obc[1667:10b]     Posture 16 tempo: 0.991, syllable: 0, onset: 1445.70, ruleTempo: 1.000, #'
2009-11-03 16:21:11.565 tst_obc[1667:10b] < printDataStructures:
2009-11-03 16:21:11.566 tst_obc[1667:10b] sample rate: 22050.000000
2009-11-03 16:21:11.567 tst_obc[1667:10b] format id: 6c70636d (lpcm)
2009-11-03 16:21:11.567 tst_obc[1667:10b] format flags: 1c
2009-11-03 16:21:11.568 tst_obc[1667:10b] bytes per packet: 2
2009-11-03 16:21:11.569 tst_obc[1667:10b] frames per packet: 1
2009-11-03 16:21:11.569 tst_obc[1667:10b] bytes per frame: 2
2009-11-03 16:21:11.570 tst_obc[1667:10b] channels per frame: 1
2009-11-03 16:21:11.570 tst_obc[1667:10b] bits per channel: 16
initializeConversion(), sampleRateConverter.maximumSampleValue: 0
2009-11-03 16:21:11.645 tst_obc[1667:10b] number of samples:    32928
2009-11-03 16:21:11.646 tst_obc[1667:10b] maximum sample value:    0.0011
2009-11-03 16:21:11.646 tst_obc[1667:10b] scale:            29971423.7842
2009-11-03 16:21:11.652 tst_obc[1667:10b] dealloc, free(inputData)
Segmentation fault
logout

Thank you,
John Delaney

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Marcelo Yassunori Matuda <marcelo.matuda@...> wrote:

Hi John,

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:38 PM, John Delaney <a.pet.rock@...> wrote:
> Because I am a bit of a beginner, please let me know if because of my level
> of experience this email is inappropriate.

I am a newbie in ObjC too.

> Here is my very naive implementation:
> #import "TextToSpeech.h"
>
> int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {
>     NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
>
>     // insert code here...
>     NSLog(@"Hello, World!");
>
>     TextToSpeech * textToSpeech;
>     NSLog(@"0");
>     [textToSpeech init];
>
>     NSString * stext = @"hello world text";
>
>
>     [textToSpeech speakText:stext];
>
>
>     [textToSpeech dealloc];
>     //[phoneString dealloc];
>
>     [pool drain];
>     return 0;
> }

You need to allocate the memory first:

TextToSpeech *textToSpeech = [[TextToSpeech alloc] init];

And AFAIK you should use:

[textToSpeech release];

not dealloc.

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Re: GNUSpeech Console Utility

2009-11-03T16:13:40Z

Hi John,

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:38 PM, John Delaney <a.pet.rock@...> wrote:
> Because I am a bit of a beginner, please let me know if because of my level
> of experience this email is inappropriate.

I am a newbie in ObjC too.

> Here is my very naive implementation:
> #import "TextToSpeech.h"
>
> int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {
>     NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
>
>     // insert code here...
>     NSLog(@"Hello, World!");
>
>     TextToSpeech * textToSpeech;
>     NSLog(@"0");
>     [textToSpeech init];
>
>     NSString * stext = @"hello world text";
>
>
>     [textToSpeech speakText:stext];
>
>
>     [textToSpeech dealloc];
>     //[phoneString dealloc];
>
>     [pool drain];
>     return 0;
> }

You need to allocate the memory first:

TextToSpeech *textToSpeech = [[TextToSpeech alloc] init];

And AFAIK you should use:

[textToSpeech release];

not dealloc.

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GNUSpeech Console Utility

2009-11-03T15:38:41Z

Hello, I am a new obj-c programmer. I decided to take a look at GNUSpeech because I am interested in speech synthesis and I've wanted to implement an existing open source speech synthesis implementation as an Apple Audio Unit synthesizer for some time. I like the sound of GNUSpeech compared to other synthesis packages I tested, and wanted to learn some of the more advanced oop programming techniqes used in its implimentation such as setting up and managing Events. I decided to start out by creating a simple "Hello World" example utilizing the GNUSpeechserver as a starting point. My goal is to create a package that is not reliant on an external speech daemon/server to synthesize text and has the synthesis callback components compiled within the audiounit. This way I can experiment with the synthesis parameters if I wanted to, ie testing different types of noise, square wave vs. sine wave, etc.

Because I am a bit of a beginner, please let me know if because of my level of experience this email is inappropriate. I'm having trouble with segmentation faults as the program accesses speechtophone methods.

Here is my very naive implementation:
#import "TextToSpeech.h"

int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

    // insert code here...
    NSLog(@"Hello, World!");

    TextToSpeech * textToSpeech;
    NSLog(@"0");
    [textToSpeech init];

    NSString * stext = @"hello world text";


    [textToSpeech speakText:stext];


    [textToSpeech dealloc];
    //[phoneString dealloc];

    [pool drain];
    return 0;
}

I'm sure there are many problems with the above implementation, and I hope they aren't too many to list in a response email. Any nudges in the correct direction would be very helpful. Please don't waste too much of your time on me.

Thank you,
John Delaney

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Re: GNUstep port updated

2009-07-05T17:44:53Z

Marcelo Yassunori Matuda <marcelo.matuda@...> wrote:
> The GNUstep port now has the parser modifications and intonation
> adjustments from the OSX port.

I was able to compile it after installing the Debian jack-dev package, which
was not needed by the earlier version.

As a result of the parser's having been completed, the pronunciation is much
improved.

The intonation is slightly better, though still not equal to the quality
demonstrated in David's sample sound files as published on his Web site.

Thanks are due to all involved for continued, steady improvements to the code.

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GNUstep port updated

2009-07-05T11:52:12Z

Hi,

The GNUstep port now has the parser modifications and intonation
adjustments from the OSX port.

Good luck, and may the Acoustics be with you...
Marcelo

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Re: Fwd: Ubuntu & GNUstep

2009-07-04T11:14:05Z

Hi Xianghang,

I tested the compilation on Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64 (gcc 4.3.3) and
GnuSpeech-GNUstep compiles without errors (but with many warnings).
Have you installed all the *-dev packages? And in INSTALL.GNUstep, you
need to follow the instructions for Debian systems (since you are
running Ubuntu).

But...

The GUI programs Monet and Synthesizer do not work. PreMo works.
Ubuntu uses and old GNUstep version, and I don't know how they
configured it. I use Slackware 12.2 (gcc 4.2.x), configuring
gnustep-back with --enable-graphics=cairo, and GnuSpeech works
reasonably well on it. On Debian 5 it works too.

The command line tool works on Ubuntu 9.04:
~/GNUstep/Library/Tools/Resources/GnuSpeechCLI/gnuspeechcli.sh hello

Regards,
Marcelo

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:48 PM, David Hill<drh@...> wrote:

> Hi Xianghang Liu,
>
> I mentioned your problem to a friend who is not on the gnuspeech mailing
> list but who is experienced with GNU/Linux. I've attached his reply.
>
> All good wishes.
>
> david
> ---------
>
>>> Since the operating system of my computer is Ubuntu
>
> Ubuntu is a carefully-packaged distribution based on Gentoo, and intended to
> give an easy install to those unable or unwilling to get deeply into the
> technical side of configuring the system. As such, it is very similar to the
> stable-branch Gentoo Linux that I (and all my family) use, so my experience
> may be relevant.
>
>>> I prefer to work on the GNUstep port.
>>> Although I have no experience in Object-C,
>
> Regrettably, I am also inexperienced in Objective-C, and am not a GNUstep
> user.
>
>>> I downloaded the GNUstep version of the code via svn and tried to
>>> compile it under my Ubuntu system. I just follow the steps as
>>> described in INSTALL.GNUstep. But I got some errors:
>>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/xianghang/Projects/trunk/
>>> Applications/Monet/Extensions'
>>> Making all for library libMonetExtensions...
>>> Compiling file NSPopUpButton-Extensions.m ...
>>> In file included from NSPopUpButton-Extensions.m:20:
>>> NSPopUpButton-Extensions.h:24: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘NSInteger’
>>> NSPopUpButton-Extensions.m:26: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘NSInteger’
>>> NSPopUpButton-Extensions.m: In function ‘-[NSPopUpButton
>>> (Extensions) selectItemWithTag:]’:
>>> NSPopUpButton-Extensions.m:28: warning: passing argument 1 of
>>> ‘indexOfItemWithTag:’ makes integer from pointer without a cast
>>> make[2]: *** [obj/NSPopUpButton-Extensions.o] Error 1
>>> make[1]: *** [libMonetExtensions.all.library.variables] Error 2
>
> I suspect this is all a result of compiling with a different version of the
> GNU C compiler gcc. Recent versions are much pickier about errors. Gentoo
> recently moved from 4.1.2 to 4.3.2 in the stable branch, and it was a riot.
> Some apps (e.g. showimg) which compile perfectly happily under 4.1.2 *still*
> waont compile under 4.3.2. If you compare the gcc version you use with that
> used by your new member, you will likely find a difference.
>
> Of more concern is the fact that the error may, in fact, be genuine. It is
> certainly a show-stopper in this compiler version. Without knowing the code,
> I can scarcely say more. Sometimes when an apparent error of this sort is
> seen when using a new compiler, I find it helpful to look at the
> preprocessed
> code with macro expansion complete (in gcc, add -E to all your usual
> switches). I've usually found that if one fixes such a problem to make a
> later compiler work, the code remains compatible with earlier compilers.
>
> I try to ward this by turning on just about every warning in sight, and
> keeping my compiles warning-free. Counter-intuitively, merely turning
> on -Wall does not do this. In the makefile, I typically write:
>
> # Warning flags - the persnickety old curmudgeon version
> WARNINGS = -Wall -W -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual \
> -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs \
> -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -Wreturn-type -Wshadow \
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wswitch -Wunused -Wwrite-strings -Winline
>
> and add ${WARNINGS} to CFLAGS. Not all these may be applicable in
> Objective-C,
> and others may be worthwhile. Even with this, I still sometimes have work to
> do on compiler version changes.
>
>>> Then I tried to just compile the Synthesizer application. It seems
>>> to be built successfully but when I execute it I got an error
>>> "Failed to load Gorm". Since I am not familiar with this project
>>> and GNUStep either, I do not know what is the mistake.
>
> With the above errors, he is missing a library or at least a section of one.
> Probably once the compiler errors are fixed this will vanish.
>
> Hope this is some help,
> --
>
>
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Re: about contribute to gnuspeech

2009-06-30T19:04:23Z

Ooops! Two kind subscribers to the gnuspeech list (Andras Kadinger and Jason White) have pointed out my silly error in claiming the article below was about the danger of using C++ for GPL software. The article is, as they pointed out, about the dangers of using C#. Talk about seeing what you expect. I don't know how I could've made that mistake, other than *really* poor eyesight, and too much haste.

I apologise.

david

----

On Jun 30, 2009, at 7:59 AM, David Hill wrote:

Hi Xianghang Liu,

On Jun 25, 2009, at 6:21 PM, xianghang liu wrote:

I am a c++ developer on speech processing and pattern recognition and a big fan of opensource development. I am very interested in this project and wondering if I could contribute to this software as a developer? If so, I think I could help with fixing bugs and implementing new features by sending patches.

You may be interested -- in view of the fact you are a C++ developer *and* interested in open source -- to check out the following. It indicates why C++ may not be the best vehicle for GPL software.

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=716&tag=nl.e011

I'll be interested in your view.

All good wishes.

david

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Re: about contribute to gnuspeech

2009-06-30T18:26:24Z

David Hill <hilld@...> wrote:

> You may be interested -- in view of the fact you are a C++ developer
> *and* interested in open source -- to check out the following. It
> indicates why C++ may not be the best vehicle for GPL software.

Actually, the article is referring to Microsoft's C# language, not to C++.

I plan to rebuild GNUSpeech whenever the GNU/Linux version is updated to take
account of the latest parsing code and improvements in speech quality.

At that point I should be in a position to test the code and to provide any
comments that may assist in the development process.

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Fwd: Ubuntu & GNUstep

2009-06-30T10:45:37Z

Hi Xianghang Liu,

I mentioned your problem to a friend who is not on the gnuspeech
mailing list but who is experienced with GNU/Linux. I've attached
his reply.

All good wishes.

david
---------

>> Since the operating system of my computer is Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a carefully-packaged distribution based on Gentoo, and
intended to
give an easy install to those unable or unwilling to get deeply into the
technical side of configuring the system. As such, it is very similar
to the
stable-branch Gentoo Linux that I (and all my family) use, so my
experience
may be relevant.

>> I prefer to work on the GNUstep port.
>> Although I have no experience in Object-C,

Regrettably, I am also inexperienced in Objective-C, and am not a
GNUstep
user.

>> I downloaded the GNUstep version of the code via svn and tried to
>> compile it under my Ubuntu system. I just follow the steps as
>> described in INSTALL.GNUstep. But I got some errors:
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/xianghang/Projects/trunk/
>> Applications/Monet/Extensions'
>> Making all for library libMonetExtensions...
>> Compiling file NSPopUpButton-Extensions.m ...
>> In file included from NSPopUpButton-Extensions.m:20:
>> NSPopUpButton-Extensions.h:24: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘NSInteger’
>> NSPopUpButton-Extensions.m:26: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘NSInteger’
>> NSPopUpButton-Extensions.m: In function ‘-[NSPopUpButton
>> (Extensions) selectItemWithTag:]’:
>> NSPopUpButton-Extensions.m:28: warning: passing argument 1 of
>> ‘indexOfItemWithTag:’ makes integer from pointer without a cast
>> make[2]: *** [obj/NSPopUpButton-Extensions.o] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [libMonetExtensions.all.library.variables] Error 2

I suspect this is all a result of compiling with a different version
of the
GNU C compiler gcc. Recent versions are much pickier about errors.
Gentoo
recently moved from 4.1.2 to 4.3.2 in the stable branch, and it was a
riot.
Some apps (e.g. showimg) which compile perfectly happily under 4.1.2
*still*
waont compile under 4.3.2. If you compare the gcc version you use
with that
used by your new member, you will likely find a difference.

Of more concern is the fact that the error may, in fact, be genuine.
It is
certainly a show-stopper in this compiler version. Without knowing
the code,
I can scarcely say more. Sometimes when an apparent error of this
sort is
seen when using a new compiler, I find it helpful to look at the
preprocessed
code with macro expansion complete (in gcc, add -E to all your usual
switches). I've usually found that if one fixes such a problem to make a
later compiler work, the code remains compatible with earlier compilers.

I try to ward this by turning on just about every warning in sight, and
keeping my compiles warning-free. Counter-intuitively, merely turning
on -Wall does not do this. In the makefile, I typically write:

# Warning flags - the persnickety old curmudgeon version
WARNINGS = -Wall -W -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual \
-Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-
externs \
-Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -Wreturn-type -Wshadow \
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wswitch -Wunused -Wwrite-strings -
Winline

and add ${WARNINGS} to CFLAGS. Not all these may be applicable in
Objective-C,
and others may be worthwhile. Even with this, I still sometimes have
work to
do on compiler version changes.

>> Then I tried to just compile the Synthesizer application. It seems
>> to be built successfully but when I execute it I got an error
>> "Failed to load Gorm". Since I am not familiar with this project
>> and GNUStep either, I do not know what is the mistake.

With the above errors, he is missing a library or at least a section
of one.
Probably once the compiler errors are fixed this will vanish.

Hope this is some help,
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Re: about contribute to gnuspeech

2009-06-30T07:59:55Z

Hi Xianghang Liu,

On Jun 25, 2009, at 6:21 PM, xianghang liu wrote:

I am a c++ developer on speech processing and pattern recognition and a big fan of opensource development. I am very interested in this project and wondering if I could contribute to this software as a developer? If so, I think I could help with fixing bugs and implementing new features by sending patches.

You may be interested -- in view of the fact you are a C++ developer *and* interested in open source -- to check out the following. It indicates why C++ may not be the best vehicle for GPL software.

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=716&tag=nl.e011

I'll be interested in your view.

All good wishes.

david

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Re: about contribute to gnuspeech

2009-06-28T13:04:14Z

Hi Xianghang Liu ,

Many thanks for your posting and for your interest in contributing to the GNUspeech project. We are always most grateful when people like yourself are willing to help out as there is always plenty of work.

One point you should be careful about. "Open source" software development is not quite the same as "free" (as in "freedom") software development. The difference is the nature of the General Public License (GPL) which protects the continued public availability of the software together with the freedom of users to modify and distribute the software. In general, "open source" does not do this, which can lead to unacceptable restrictions. You should check out Richard Stallman's book of essays on "free" software, available in .pdf form as a download (at no cost) at:

http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society

Chapter 20 is of particular interest, and the book also includes a copy of the GPL and the GDL (General Documentation License -- similar idea for documents, as for code under the GPL).

You will be aware that -- as a GNU project -- GNUspeech is being developed/ported under a GPL V3, supported by the Free Software Foundation.

You can also access all the source code in the SVN repository (we have abandoned the CVS repository) which is accessible on the main savannah page:

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuspeech

You don't need to be a member of the project to do this. It is only when you wish to change what is in the repository that you need to be a member, in which case you will need to get a gnu/savannah user ID at:

https://savannah.gnu.org/account/register.php

but if (for example) you are running Firefox, it will complain bitterly about the security certificate not being certified by a recognised authority, with dire warnings. Unless this worries you, you can simply make a security exception and move on to the form, fill it in, and eventually you will receive the needed ID which allows you to be added to projects.

The gnuspeech home page is also accessible from the main gnuspeech project page, but the direct URL is:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuspeech

and this will give you a good overview of what has to be done to move all the original software onto GNU/Linux and Mac OS X. So far, as

Have you downloaded the current alpha release of some of the components? You can download the Mac OS X version at:

http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/osx/trunk/Builds/?root=gnuspeech

and the GNU/Linux version is in a similar location on the "gnustep" branch, since the GNUStep environment is required to run the software under GNU/Linux. Marcelo Matuda is the lead contributor to this branch whilst Dalmazio Brisinda and myself are the current main contributors to the Mac OS X branch (though the major work on "Monet" was done three years ago by Steve Nygard). The "nextstep" branch has all the original source from the NeXT, as well as the TextToSpeech packages and passwords for the NeXT version. If you have access to a NeXT, you can see exactly what the original complete suite did, and it could be very useful to you as you get involved.

I note that you are experienced in C++. We are developing mainly in Objective-C, with the actual tube model in straight C, whether on Mac OS X or GNUstep. There are some important differences, as you are obviously aware. Objective-C -- for example -- does not use multiple inheritance which I see as a major drawback of C++. The need for multiple inheritance, IMHO, indicates a failure to design the original Object structure cleanly. There's an excellent book on Cocoa, Interface Builder, and Objective-C by Aaron Hillegass: "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X" (third edition, Addison Wesley 2008) which is also applicable to GNUstep (GNUstep is a free software implementation of NeXTSTEP/OpenStep -- "the best software on the planet" -- still is!).

As someone experienced in speech processing and pattern recognition we shall value the contributions you are able to make. After you have caught up with some of the references I have provided, I'd be interested to know which aspects interest you most. The most obvious place for you to start, I think, would be to work on my rather hacked first cut at "Synthesizer" -- the App that allows users to work with the tube model directly, rather than synthesize speech. There is a fair amount of signal processing involved, and several parts that display various graphs of the tube model characteristics have not yet been completed. Also there are some (!) bugs.

Steve Nygard commented on the "first cut" as follows:

I did notice three things. First, when you tab out of the text field for the area of the 5th section (which has an initial value of 2.06... w/ radius 0.81 and dia 1.62)... the area changed to 3.33 (radius 1.03, dia 2.06). It keeps doing this as you tab or backtab out of it. This doesn't happen with any of the other text fields.

Second, the graph for the Glottal Pulse Parameters changes as you alternately click in the "Fall Time Min" and "Fall Time Max" text fields (without actually changing the values). I'm guessing it's a similar problem to the first.

Finally, after tabbing through all the Glottal Source controls about 82 times, it crashes in... initializeSynthesizer(), rewind(), flockfile(). I peeked at the source code, and it just looks like you aren't releasing the previous file handle from tmpfile(), running out of file handles, and then rewind() crashes when it gets a NULL pointer.

There's an odd bug that in the pitch pulse harmonic display the second harmonic disappears from time to time. There are also, apparently, some problems with clipping rectangles, views, and the like. I am not sure this technical issue is a priority as it doesn't affect the compilation and there are other matters which more urgently need attention. However, Dalmazio wrote a short time ago and said (followed by my reply and Dalmazio's elaboration):

- After opening the nib file in Interface Builder I do get a bunch of warnings on clipping rectangles and views and the like. The application still compiles and executes fine though.

Now that is odd. Your version of xcode must be a lot pickier or smarter than mine. I should look into it. Any chance you could copy the messages & send them. I've seen nothing of that sort.

The version of Xcode I'm using is 3.1.1. The warning only appears as 1 warning during compilation but actually consists of hundreds of similar warnings along the lines of:

Box Illegal Geometry This view overlaps one of its siblings.
Text Field Illegal Geometry This view is clipping its contents.

All the warnings appear to be of this form -- one of the two issues stated above.

I can correct the problem by manually re-creating the offending widget and re-creating the various connections for that widget -- ensuring widgets do not overlap each other, but this would take a lot of time as their are over 400 individual IB warnings.

I remember I had a similar problem with the original little GnuSpeech application Steve wrote but there were only a few interface elements so it was easy enough to just recreate the components.

It would be nice to know a little more about your background and whether you are more interested in the Mac OS X port, or the GNUstep port (there are some incompatibilities, so we think it is easiest to keep them as separate branches). The GNUstep port is somewhat less advanced than the Mac port, and there are some reasons for this (including the greater difficulty dealing with sound output, and the ongoing development status of GNUstep itself), but some additional effort on the GNUstep port would be most welcome.

All good wishes, and many thanks for your interest and offer of help.

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On Jun 25, 2009, at 6:21 PM, xianghang liu wrote:

Hi,
I am a c++ developer on speech processing and pattern recognition and a big fan of opensource development. I am very interested in this project and wondering if I could contribute to this software as a developer? If so, I think I could help with fixing bugs and implementing new features by sending patches.

Looking forward to your reply. It would be a great pleasure to join.
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about contribute to gnuspeech

2009-06-25T18:21:33Z

Hi,
I am a c++ developer on speech processing and pattern recognition and a big fan of opensource development. I am very interested in this project and wondering if I could contribute to this software as a developer? If so, I think I could help with fixing bugs and implementing new features by sending patches.

Looking forward to your reply. It would be a great pleasure to join.

Thanks

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Developments in GNU/Linux speech APIs

2009-06-12T03:12:37Z

Contributors to the GNUSpeech project may be interested, by way of background,
in recent developments discussed on the Gnome-accessibility mailing list,
regarding speech synthesis APIs under GNU/Linux.

The essence of the proposal, which at this stage may or may not proceed, is to
improve Speech Dispatcher (http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd) so that it can
become the standard interface to applications such as assistive technologies
that need to generate speech output. The features of Speech Dispatcher are
described at the aforementioned Web page.

The proposal by Luke Yelavich is here:
http://www.themuso.id.au/speech/speech-dispatcher-orca-integration.txt
but the plan extends beyond Gnome and Orca to embrace the idea of using Speech
Dispatcher as a common mediator between speech synthesizers and all speaking
applications, whether running at the console level or as part of a desktop
environment.

In mentioning this plan, I am not stating a position either in support of or
in opposition to it.

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GnuSpeech v0.7.1 (for Mac)

2009-05-19T11:49:21Z

Hi all,

Just letting everyone know that the latest beta maintenance build
release of the GnuSpeech distribution v0.7.1 (for Mac) is now
available on SVN in the gnuspeech/osx/trunk/Builds folder.

This version fixes a bug with the server crashing on 10.4 systems, as
well as crashes when trying to speak text that contains non-ascii-
convertible characters. Additional improvements include more natural-
sounding speech through adjustment of the Monet and speech server
defaults.

See the Builds folder ChangeLog for more information.

Best,
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Updated TouchNTalk sources include useful tools

2009-05-13T08:56:03Z

The material in the SVN repository related to the haptic/
proprioceptive/auditory computer screen interface for the visually
impaired -- "TouchNTalk" -- has been significantly updated using
recently recovered original files, and includes some useful tools.

The software, all now GPL v.3, was developed as an application of the
gnuspeech text-to-speech software within the computer human systems
group at the university of Calgary (and later as a technology
transfer project by the university spinoff company Trillium Sound
Research Inc.), and is the subject of a paper in the IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics that may be accessed on-
line at:

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill/papers/ieee-touch-n-talk-1988.pdf

The material includes the full sources for TouchNTalk, the full
TabletKit, GrooveSliderPalette, tone generator, sample files, and PDF
user manual. The work involved a number of researchers over several
years including myself (David Hill) as project leader, Christiane
Grebe (neé Dohrn, my graduate student who completed her MSc on the
project), Dalmazio Brisinda (who was responsible for developing the
tools, as well as the most recent NeXTStep incarnation), Sheldon
Maloff (who produced the original Atari 1040ST version), together
with Ken Griffin, Richard Esau, and Shabu Hassiens. The application
represents several person-years of effort. The work included human
factors evaluation with both normally sighted subjects who were
blindfolded, and subjects with complete visual impairment, the
results of which are included in the paper mentioned above.

The software is considered part of the gnuspeech project, for what I
hope are obvious reasons. Like the text-to-speech core of the work,
the software was originally developed for the NeXT computer under
NeXTStep but will be ported to GNU/Linux under GnuStep (and also to
the Macintosh). Please let me know if you would be able to help.

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GnuSpeech v0.7 (for Mac) + Full Parser Support

2009-05-07T00:21:49Z

Hi all,

Just letting everyone know that the latest beta build release of the
GnuSpeech distribution v0.7 (for Mac) is now available on SVN in the
gnuspeech/osx/trunk/Builds folder.

This version includes full parser support as taken from the original
parser modules, including the full text parser, number parser, letter-
to-sound rules, and common abbreviations. These were all ported from
the original source c. 1995 and are tested and functioning.

There are also a couple of small fixes for Monet and minor
organizational changes.

See the Builds folder ChangeLog for more information.

Best,
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Re: Synthesizer in GNUstep/Linux

2009-04-26T12:32:14Z

Hi Marcelo,

That is fantastic. Many thanks indeed. I need to download all the
GNU/Linux stuff and have fun checking everything to see how it all
checks out.

Warm regards.

david

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> Hi,
>
> Synthesizer is working in GNUstep/Linux (sources in Subversion).
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> Like the other modules, it may not be as good as the OSX version.
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> Regards,
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Synthesizer in GNUstep/Linux

2009-04-26T08:36:46Z

Hi,

Synthesizer is working in GNUstep/Linux (sources in Subversion).

Like the other modules, it may not be as good as the OSX version.

Regards,
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GnuSpeech v0.6 (for Mac)

2009-04-22T23:20:40Z

Hi all,

Just letting members of the list know that the latest beta build
release of the GnuSpeech distribution v0.6 (for Mac) is now available
on SVN in the gnuspeech/osx/trunk/Builds folder.

This version includes the Synthesizer application that David has been
working on. It also should correct some problems with the speech
service not working on machines running 10.4. Finally, the Monet
application has better English text vs. phone/posture field syncing.
Monet now uses the Enter shortcut to "Parse Text" and the Command-
Enter shortcut to "Synthesize".

Anyway, all this is in the ChangeLog.

Best,
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Re: Early GNUSpeech observations

2009-04-21T18:24:33Z

Hi Jason,

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:46 PM, David Hill <drh@...> wrote:
> In Monet, there is an
> "Intonation Parameters" tool, which allows you to change the parameters of
> the intonation. If you reduce the "Pretonic Range" to (say) 3, from 5, the
> speech doesn't sound so frenetic. You can play around with all the
> parameters which alter ranges, notional pitch and such for the various
> components of the Halliday intonation framework for Spoken English.

In GnuSpeechCLI, there is a XML file named config.plist. You may
adjust the parameters, for example:

IntonationNotionalPitch
IntonationPretonicRange
IntonationPretonicLift
IntonationTonicRange
IntonationTonicMovement

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Re: Early GNUSpeech observations

2009-04-21T17:46:50Z

Hi Jason,

On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Jason White wrote:

In the current, partially ported, version the intonation tends to rise sharply

until punctuation is encountered. I have noticed, however, that the parsing

code inserts markers into the phonetic string which is forwarded to the rest

of the synthesizer for processing, and I surmise that these affect, among

other parameters, the intonation. Thus I will listen again when the parser has

been ported and refined.

A quick comment on this observation of yours. In Monet, there is an "Intonation Parameters" tool, which allows you to change the parameters of the intonation. If you reduce the "Pretonic Range" to (say) 3, from 5, the speech doesn't sound so frenetic. You can play around with all the parameters which alter ranges, notional pitch and such for the various components of the Halliday intonation framework for Spoken English.

The latest version of Monet has two input windows. One is for ordinary text, and the other shows the resulting Monet "phonetic" input, with various added information for the intonation if you select "Parse Text". When you "Synthesize", it is the "phonetic" input that gets spoken.

We're working on various aspects of the whole gnuspeech suite as you know. I have just made a 0.7 version of "Synthesizer" available and Dalmazio has put it into the SVN repository (thanks Dalmazio). "Synthesizer", you may remember, is an application to allow a user to experiment with the raw tube model that provides the vocal tract emulation. It is also a tool that is needed when creating the synthesis databases for a new language using Monet.

All good wishes.

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Re: Gnuspeech's nasal tract

2009-04-21T17:17:21Z

Hi Robert,

Good to hear from you. Hope all is well.

On Apr 21, 2009, at 2:54 PM, seedpress@... wrote:

I hope this isn't too far off the gnuspeech topics: I'm wondering, if one were to eliminate the nasal tract and the three-way junction portions of the tube model, then how much would that effect the quality and intelligibility of the resultant speech?

It would rather defeat the basis of the articulatory synthesis since, for nasal sounds, there would be now way of siphoning off the required energy into the nasal resonance and changing the overall resonance of the vocal tract. So you would eviscerate the tract emulation and you wouldn't even gain very much.

On a different note, due to the expense of buying a Mac, I've not yet run the Mac binary you were kind enough to make available; still hope to do so eventually, though. In the meantime, I've noted that the Linux/Gnustep version is moving along well.

There's new stuff in the SVN repository on the savannah site now (we've opted for SVN -- rather than CVS which is therefore now obsolete). In particular, there's a .dmg file that will install Monet and a speech daemon on the Mac so you can play with Monet (still not complete as a language creation tool because the database creation stuff is not fully ported -- the parser is the next thing to be completed, then the database creation tools). The direct URL for the .dmg is:

http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/osx/trunk/Builds/GnuSpeech-0.5.1.dmg?root=gnuspeech&view=log

and choose download.

You will remember that the project description page is:

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuspeech

but everything is accessible from the savannah home page at:

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuspeech

Thanks again for your devotion to the gnuspeech project and for your excellent work.

Thank you! It is a labour of love. I'd hate to see all the effort that was put in when we were "Trillium" go to waste.

I have just got an initial port of "Synthesizer" working, BTW. The sources for both "Monet" and "Synthesizer" are also in the repository. I could send you a ready-to-run version of the "Synthesizer" app if you ever get a Mac.

All good wishes.

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Gnuspeech's nasal tract

2009-04-21T14:54:48Z

Professor Hill,

I hope this isn't too far off the gnuspeech topics: I'm wondering, if one were to eliminate the nasal tract and the three-way junction portions of the tube model, then how much would that effect the quality and intelligibility of the resultant speech?

On a different note, due to the expense of buying a Mac, I've not yet run the Mac binary you were kind enough to make available; still hope to do so eventually, though. In the meantime, I've noted that the Linux/Gnustep version is moving along well.

Thanks again for your devotion to the gnuspeech project and for your excellent work.

Robert Hamilton
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Re: Re: Monet Update

2009-04-16T05:40:54Z

On Apr 16, 2009, at 1:30 AM, Jason White wrote:

> Marcelo Yassunori Matuda <marcelo.matuda@...> wrote:
>> But there are kinds of differences that would not be solved with a
>> unified tree. GnuSpeechCLI and GnuTTSServer (OSX) are not the same
>> program.
>
> True, although based on the discussion last week, I think the
> intention was to
> investigate building the speech server daemon under GNU/Linux, with
> the
> principal question being whether the distributed object APIs were
> available,
> and sufficiently compatible, to make this possible.
>
> My main concern about having two trees is the extra maintenance
> burden for the
> developers, hence the question raised.
>
> Thank you to all who are working on this project.
>

I believe the question raised about Distributed Objects came from
Dalmazio. As far as I know, the GNUStep DO implementation is complete
and functional. The only incompatibility I know of is on-the-wire
binary compatibility, since the Mac OS X NSPortCoder binary layout is
not documented. This means a GNUStep DO implementation can't vend
objects to Mac OS X, and vis-versa. Also, if I recall correctly,
GNUStep DO is only enabled between objects on the same machine by
default -- you need to specifically enable support for objects vended
across the network (a security feature), though I shouldn't think
either feature (binary compatibility or network distributed objects)
would be needed by a TTS server.

HTH

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