Test to Speech Synthesis in Squeak 4?

Hi,

What is the current status of text to speech synthesis in Squeak 4?

Googling the topic gave me only the page [1] which in turn refers to
the KlattSynthesizer page [2], and also the Speech package page [3];
both Wiki pages were last updated years ago.

I tried to install the "Speech" package from SqueakMap, but it failed
to install. Does there exist a newer version or other packages for
speech synthesis?

In case a newer version does not exist, I don't mind trying to fix the
package myself.

I use Squeak 4.1, default build, with "stock" image from squeak.org under Linux.

Thanks for any ideas.

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[1] http://www.squeak.org/Features/MultiMedia/
[2] http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1112
[3] http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/651
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Dimitry Golubovsky

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Hi,

On 1/2/11 2:11 AM, "Ricardo Moran" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

I don't know if this is the latest version of the package but it seems the .sar has a bug and it's not loading the "Speech-Phonetics.st" file. I'm attaching a version that loads without errors on Squeak 4.2. I don't know if it works correctly, I only tested the example below:

Speaker manWithHead say: 'This is my voice. Can you see my lips?'.

I hope this helps. 

Cheers
Richo


On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Dimitry Golubovsky <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

What is the current status of text to speech synthesis in Squeak 4?

Googling the topic gave me only the page [1] which in turn refers to
the KlattSynthesizer page [2], and also the Speech package page [3];
both Wiki pages were last updated years ago.

I tried to install the "Speech" package from SqueakMap, but it failed
to install. Does there exist a newer version or other packages for
speech synthesis?

In case a newer version does not exist, I don't mind trying to fix the
package myself.

I use Squeak 4.1, default build, with "stock" image from squeak.org <http://squeak.org>  under Linux.

Thanks for any ideas.

The recipe is:

Go for FunSqueak http://ftp.squeak.org/Experiments/FunSqueakCog4.2-10813-alpha.zip
Go to Ladrillos repository, load Speech-md.9

FileIn the two attached and do

Speaker manWithHead say: 'This is my voice. Can you see my lips?'.


Enjoy, send any feedback and maybe I put Speech into the next build of FunSqueak with any improvements send to list or direct to me

Edgar

P.S. FunSqueak is build on top of current 4.2

On Sat, 1 Jan 2011, Dimitry Golubovsky wrote:

Speech is available on SqueakSource, but there's a problem with the order
of class initializations, which should be fixed. Until then you can try
the following script which works around the issue:

[ [
  Installer squeaksource
  project: 'Speech';
  install: 'SharedPool-Speech';
  install: 'Speech' ]
  on: MessageNotUnderstood
  do: [ :error |
  "We get here, because LipsMorph class >> #initialize assumes that PhonemeSet is already initialized."
  #(PhonemeSet KlattSynthesizer LiljencrantsFant PhonemeRecord Voice)
  do: [ :each | (Smalltalk at: each) initialize ].
  error retry ] ]
  on: Warning
  do: [ :warning |
  "We get here, because we manipulated the loading process above."
  warning resume ].

If the above script was successfully evaluated you can try this:

Speaker default say: 'Hi!'.

See the class side of Speaker for other examples.


Levente