Say speech synthesizer question

robinhood2013 · 20 May 2013, 23:24

I'm playing with the "Say" speech synthesizer as part of my Workbench 1.3 installation on my emulated Amiga 500, and I'm a little stumped. When I input a word in the "Input window" for my Amiga to say, and then follow it with a question mark, intending for it to say the word as a question (e.g. "Name?"), sometimes it will regurgitate the word not as a question, but as a statement ("Name.") with a period. Is there any way to "force" Say to interpret my input as a question?

TjLaZer · 21 May 2013, 05:41

No. It's too primitive to know you want it to ask it like it's asking a question.

Dan · 21 May 2013, 17:51

im not sure if i have understand your question right,
so basicaly when you enter

Code:

What is your name ?

you want that it outputs the text as (i mean text only):

Code:

What is your name?

and not as

Code:

What is your name.

in that case could write an amiga basic or amos pro basic program which will do that.

emufan · 22 May 2013, 15:55

on aminet there are some related tools and also patches for the translator.library.
they add the possiblity to use accent packages for different languages. not tested, just sharing information

TranslatorPrefs V2.2
Multilingual translator lib replacement 42.4
Patches Translator42.4, 43.0 to Translator43.1
Huge USA English Accent File
other accent packages

edit: i tested myself. winuae a1200 040 wb3.1 setup.
i copied the narrator.device from workbench 2.04 to my devs: folder.
installed Translator42.4 - this comes with some accent files.
applied the patch to Translator43.1 library.
copied the TranslatorPrefs V2.2 to prefs folder.
within the prefs program you can enter some text and translate it.
here i could hear a difference, when using "?" and "." at end of sentence.

robinhood2013 · 23 May 2013, 05:23

Okay, that seems to work so far, as far as Workbench 3.1 is concerned. But now I have another question: How, if possible, would I accomplish the same thing with a game that uses speech synthesis (e.g. Earl Weaver Baseball)?

prowler · 23 May 2013, 23:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by emufan

on aminet there are some related tools and also patches for the translator.library.
they add the possiblity to use accent packages for different languages. not tested, just sharing information

TranslatorPrefs V2.2
Multilingual translator lib replacement 42.4
Patches Translator42.4, 43.0 to Translator43.1
Huge USA English Accent File
other accent packages

edit: i tested myself. winuae a1200 040 wb3.1 setup.
i copied the narrator.device from workbench 2.04 to my devs: folder.
installed Translator42.4 - this comes with some accent files.
applied the patch to Translator43.1 library.
copied the TranslatorPrefs V2.2 to prefs folder.
within the prefs program you can enter some text and translate it.
here i could hear a difference, when using "?" and "." at end of sentence.

That's an unexpected result - astonishing even!

Congratulations on that discovery, Emufan!

Well worth the effort even if it works only in a WB3.1 environment!

emufan · 24 May 2013, 00:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by robinhood2013

Okay, that seems to work so far, as far as Workbench 3.1 is concerned. But now I have another question: How, if possible, would I accomplish the same thing with a game that uses speech synthesis (e.g. Earl Weaver Baseball)?

you are a lucky one with this game. the disk is in normal DOS format (Earl Weaver Baseball (1987)(Electronic Arts)[cr BS1].zip).
just exchange the libs/translator.library with Translator.library v43.1
if this works you can also add the english accent file to disk-image:
folder/file to disk-image: df0:locale/accents/english.accent
maybe this works. not tested

whdload.de lists: "Earl Weaver Baseball (Electronic Arts), 80% complete" - not yet completed.
maybe the "trick" does also work with this slave, once it is finished and available.

Edit: i changed translator.library only on "Earl Weaver Baseball (1987)(Electronic Arts)[cr BS1]" still works, winuae a500 kick 1.3
with narrator.device from workbench 2.04 it crashed. using kick 3.1 on that a500 emulation, game loads, but missing mousepointer.

Quote:

Originally Posted by prowler

That's an unexpected result - astonishing even!

yep, the results are really good, thanks goes to the authors of the packages

20 May 2013, 23:24	#1
robinhood2013 Rookie Amigan Join Date: May 2013 Location: Waco, TX, USA Posts: 17	Say speech synthesizer question I'm playing with the "Say" speech synthesizer as part of my Workbench 1.3 installation on my emulated Amiga 500, and I'm a little stumped. When I input a word in the "Input window" for my Amiga to say, and then follow it with a question mark, intending for it to say the word as a question (e.g. "Name?"), sometimes it will regurgitate the word not as a question, but as a statement ("Name.") with a period. Is there any way to "force" Say to interpret my input as a question?

21 May 2013, 17:51	#3
Dan Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Germany Posts: 629	im not sure if i have understand your question right, so basicaly when you enter Code: What is your name ? you want that it outputs the text as (i mean text only): Code: What is your name? and not as Code: What is your name. in that case could write an amiga basic or amos pro basic program which will do that.

22 May 2013, 15:55	#4
emufan Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: #DrainTheSwamp Posts: 4,545	on aminet there are some related tools and also patches for the translator.library. they add the possiblity to use accent packages for different languages. not tested, just sharing information TranslatorPrefs V2.2 Multilingual translator lib replacement 42.4 Patches Translator42.4, 43.0 to Translator43.1 Huge USA English Accent File other accent packages edit: i tested myself. winuae a1200 040 wb3.1 setup. i copied the narrator.device from workbench 2.04 to my devs: folder. installed Translator42.4 - this comes with some accent files. applied the patch to Translator43.1 library. copied the TranslatorPrefs V2.2 to prefs folder. within the prefs program you can enter some text and translate it. here i could hear a difference, when using "?" and "." at end of sentence. Last edited by emufan; 22 May 2013 at 18:16.

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21 May 2013, 05:41	#2
TjLaZer Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Tacoma, WA USA Age: 52 Posts: 1,919	No. It's too primitive to know you want it to ask it like it's asking a question.

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robinhood2013 Rookie Amigan Join Date: May 2013 Location: Waco, TX, USA Posts: 17	Okay, that seems to work so far, as far as Workbench 3.1 is concerned. But now I have another question: How, if possible, would I accomplish the same thing with a game that uses speech synthesis (e.g. Earl Weaver Baseball)?

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