Hi,<br><br>That make me thought about surelly something already said here it think<br>marble turn-by-turn navigation mode should really really come with a disclaimer.<br>like "Beware on the road, "dead" is not a convenient state to use Marble."<br>
my 2 cent.<br><br>Sylvain<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/5 Torsten Rahn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tackat@t-online.de">tackat@t-online.de</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
Great initiative! :-)<br>
<br>
As I've said before: I'd really be keen on having a professional quality<br>
speaker as a reference. And I can't wait to hear custom records saying stuff<br>
like:<br>
<br>
"The Marble team wishes you a pleasant and safe journey!"<br>
<br>
I'll try to help finding some professional speaker for the german version (but<br>
no promises - so if somebody else has more success ...).<br>
<br>
Best Regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">Torsten<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
On Saturday, 5. February 2011 16:59:05 Dennis Nienhüser wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I looked into voice navigation (speaking out turn instructions, mainly<br>
> for the mobile version) into more detail today. I made a<br>
> proof-of-concept version (described below) and I'm looking for feedback<br>
> before I give that the final touch.<br>
><br>
> Generally I feel that text-to-speech systems still sound too bad at this<br>
> point to be usable for day-to-day operation. Instead I'd like to have<br>
> pre-recorded voice samples. That approach works quite well given that<br>
> the number of words to speak is rather limited. Ideally we'd ship at<br>
> least one complete (english) voice from a professional speaker. If we<br>
> don't find one, we could still fall back to replacing voice output with<br>
> sounds (taking e.g. some existing KDE ones).<br>
><br>
> My plan is to re-use TomToms approach -- 59 short voice files -- and<br>
> generate the sentences to speak from them. One sentence is either a full<br>
> voice file or a concatenation of them when distances are involved (e.g.<br>
> TurnRight.ogg + After.ogg + 200.ogg + Meters.ogg). Fortunately there are<br>
> a bunch of these voice files out [1] [2] which can be downloaded for<br>
> free by users (we cannot ship them though). That way we could ship one<br>
> default voice sample set (done by us) and allow users to install others<br>
> (e.g. localized ones or ones recorded by them) at their liking. The<br>
> voice files need some conversion from the .chk format to be playable<br>
> with phonon by Marble, but I could setup some website that handles that.<br>
><br>
> The remaining work is then:<br>
> - Polish the code<br>
> - Backport to Marble 1.1 (should keep ABI)<br>
> - Find a professional speaker that does a Marble voice sample set for us<br>
> - If we don't find one, ask the community<br>
> - If we still don't find one, use KDE sounds as "voices". Doing that<br>
> probably makes sense anyway for people not liking their N900 talk to<br>
> them, but still want audible announcements.<br>
> - Setup some website on my server (~php frontend to unpacking, oggz-rip<br>
> and packing) to convert TomTom .chk files to the Marble format to allow<br>
> users to install other voices<br>
><br>
> Feedback welcome.<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> Dennis<br>
><br>
> [1] <a href="http://www.voice-maniacs.com/" target="_blank">http://www.voice-maniacs.com/</a><br>
> [2] <a href="http://www.gps-data-team.com/pda-gps-navigation/links/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.gps-data-team.com/pda-gps-navigation/links/index.php</a><br>
> (scroll down)<br>
><br>
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