| This directory contains the BRLTTY speech synthesizer driver for the ViaVoice |
| [http://www.ibm.com/software/speech/dev/ttssdk_linux.html] text to speech |
| engine from International Business Machines (IBM) [http://www.ibm.com]. It was |
| implemented, and is being maintained, by Dave Mielke <Dave@Mielke.cc>. |
| |
| ViaVoice was its original name. It's currently known as Voxin |
| [http://voxin.oralux.net/], and is currently being maintained by the Oralux |
| Association [http://oralux.org/]. Other names by which ViaVoice has been |
| known include Eloquence, Outloud, and DecTalk. |
| |
| This driver can be either dynamically loaded (at run time) or built directly |
| into a dynamically linked BRLTTY binary (via --with-speech-driver), |
| but it can't be built into a statically linked BRLTTY binary (via |
| --enable-standalone-programs) because the Voxin package doesn't contain |
| static archives. |
| |
| The sox command must be installed because this driver uses it in order to |
| resample from one of the underlying speech engine's fixed set of rates (see |
| the quality parameter, below) to one that's supported by the sound card. |
| |
| This driver recognizes the following parameters (see below for details): |
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| Parameter Value |
| Quality fair, poor, good |
| Mode words, letters, punctuation, phonetic |
| Synthesize sentences, all |
| Abbreviations on, off |
| Years on, off |
| Language dialect-language[-encoding] |
| Voice built-in type or ViaVoice name |
| Gender male, female |
| HeadSize 0-100 |
| PitchBaseline 40-422 [Hertz] |
| Expressiveness 0-100 (pitch fluctuation) |
| Roughness 0-100 |
| Breathiness 0-100 |
| Volume 0-100 [percent] |
| Speed 70-1297 [words per minute] |
| |
| The quality parameter sets the sample rate of the generated audio: |
| |
| Value Rate |
| Poor 8000Hz |
| *Fair 11025Hz |
| Good 22050Hz |
| |
| The mode parameter determines how the text is spoken: |
| |
| Value Action |
| *Words words are spoken |
| Letters letters are spoken |
| Punctuation letters and punctuation are spoken |
| Phonetic letters are spoken phonetically |
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| The synthesize parameter determines how the text is synthesized: |
| |
| Value Action |
| *Sentences each sentence is synthesized separately |
| All the entire text is synthesized |
| |
| The abbreviations parameter determines how known abbreviations are spoken: |
| |
| Value Action |
| *On abbreviations are expanded |
| Off abbreviations aren't expanded |
| |
| The years parameter determines how four-digit numbers are spoken: |
| |
| Value Action Example |
| *On as year numbers twenty nineteen |
| Off as other numbers two thousand nineteen |
| |
| The language parameter specifies which language is to be synthesized. The |
| components of a language name are separated from one another by a dash [-]. |
| The first component is the dialect, the second component is the language, |
| and the optional third component is the encoding (character set). Case |
| doesn't matter, and each component may be individually abbreviated as |
| desired. For example, ca-fr means Canadian-French. The following languages |
| are supported: |
| |
| *American-English |
| British-English |
| Castilian-Spanish |
| Mexican-Spanish |
| Standard-French |
| Canadian-French |
| Standard-German |
| Standard-Italian |
| Standard-Mandarin-GBK |
| Standard-Mandarin-PinYin |
| Standard-Mandarin-UCS2 |
| Taiwanese-Mandarin-Big5 |
| Taiwanese-Mandarin-ZhuYin |
| Taiwanese-Mandarin-PinYin |
| Taiwanese-Mandarin-UCS2 |
| Brazilian-Portuguese |
| Standard-Japanese-SJIS |
| Standard-Japanese-UCS2 |
| Standard-Finnish |
| Standard-Korean-UHC |
| Standard-Korean-UCS2 |
| Standard-Cantonese-GBK |
| Standard-Cantonese-UCS2 |
| HongKong-Cantonese-Big5 |
| HongKong-Cantonese-UCS2 |
| Standard-Dutch |
| Standard-Norwegian |
| Standard-Swedish |
| Standard-Danish |
| Standard-Thai-TIS620 |
| |
| The voice parameter specifies which type of voice is to be synthesized. It |
| may be either a built-in voice type or a ViaVoice voice name. The built-in |
| voice types are: man (the default), woman, child, patriarch (elderly man), |
| matriarch (elderly woman). The ViaVoice voice names are: |
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| Language Type Name |
| American English Man Reed |
| American English Woman Shelley |
| American English Child Sandy |
| American English Patriarch Grandpa |
| American English Matriarch Grandma |
| British English Man Justin |
| British English Woman Jane |
| British English Child Nicky |
| British English Patriarch Gramps |
| British English Matriarch Nanny |
| Castilian Spanish Man Carlos |
| Castilian Spanish Woman Pilar |
| Castilian Spanish Child Pepe |
| Castilian Spanish Patriarch Abuelo |
| Castilian Spanish Matriarch Abuela |
| Standard French Man Jacques |
| Standard French Woman Jacqueline |
| Standard French Child Marius |
| Standard French Patriarch Grandpère |
| Standard French Matriarch Mamie |
| Standard German Man Max |
| Standard German Woman Gisela |
| Standard German Child Matti |
| Standard German Patriarch Opa |
| Standard German Matriarch Oma |
| Standard Italian Man Enrico |
| Standard Italian Woman Lucia |
| Standard Italian Child Chicco |
| Standard Italian Patriarch Nonno |
| Standard Italian Matriarch Nonna |
| Standard Mandarin Man Li3 Jing4 |
| Standard Mandarin Woman Wang2 Yan4 |
| Standard Mandarin Child Li3 Dong1 Dong1 |
| Standard Mandarin Patriarch Ye2 Ye |
| Standard Mandarin Matriarch Nai3 Nai |
| Taiwanese Mandarin Man Zhi4 Ming2 |
| Taiwanese Mandarin Woman Chun1 Jiao1 |
| Taiwanese Mandarin Child Xiao3 Bu4 Dian3 |
| Taiwanese Mandarin Patriarch A3 Gong1 |
| Taiwanese Mandarin Matriarch A3 Ma4 |
| Brazilian Portuguese Man João |
| Brazilian Portuguese Woman Cláudia |
| Brazilian Portuguese Child Chico |
| Brazilian Portuguese Patriarch Avô |
| Brazilian Portuguese Matriarch Avó |
| Standard Japanese Man Taroo |
| Standard Japanese Woman Hanako |
| Standard Japanese Child Jiroo |
| Standard Japanese Patriarch Taroo |
| Standard Japanese Matriarch Obaachan |
| Standard Finnish Man Antti |
| Standard Finnish Woman Tarja |
| Standard Finnish Child Pekka |
| Standard Finnish Patriarch Isoisä |
| Standard Finnish Matriarch Isoäiti |
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