WAV files from Neospeech voices

[Ray_M]

Hal will not generate a wav file using the neospeech voices. A window just sits there with the progress bar greyed out and doing nothing except counting the time elapsed. I have left it for a many minutes with just one sentence of text just in case it was doing something in the background.

The neospeech voices are active when reading text.

Both functions, reading text and wav file production, are fine with other voices.

Suggestions please.

TYIA, Ray.

[OS is W2K SP4 RU1 and later updates.
The program and voices are installed on drive D:
I have tried uninstalling, cleaning up (Norton System Works - Windoctor) and the re-installing but to no effect].

[Dr.Benway]

http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2243

[Ray_M]

Thank you, Dr Benway. When I ran TTSApp.exe
(D:Program FilesabawareHalReaderPaullibTTSApp.exe)
I was able to write a short wav file using NeoKate voice.
[There is another copy of the file in
D:Program FilesabawareHalReaderKatelibTTSApp.exe].

Another advantage of TTSApp.exe, which I see is a Microsoft program, is that the rate (speed) can be sensibly adjusted. I have previously found that a small adjustment can be beneficial. Unfortunately there is no Pitch adjustment though.

TTSApp.exe had a drop down list of formats.  44kHz 16 bit (normal music CD quality)is clearly better quality than 8kHz 8 bit but the file is over four times larger. Which format would you recommend for best quality speech, with the smallest file size? [My intention is to write to CD for playing on a CD Player so I can not judge from my PC's reproduction].

Ray

[Dr.Benway]

I believe 44kHz 16 bit is about the highest quality a CD is able to reproduce so going higher than that is unnecessary. For music I would recommend that format, but with speech you probably can get away with much less.

CD quality: 44.100 kHz, 16 bit
Radio quality: 22.050 kHz, 16 bit
Telephone quality: 11.025 kHz 16 Bit

Personally I would first see how much minutes of audio I have and then go for the highest quality possible.

[Ray_M]

Many thanks, Dr Benway.
I will adopt your suggested strategy.

Returning to the original problem, is this a fault in the UltraHal reader?

If it is, can someone at Zabaware say if they are looking at the problems noted in this forum.

Ray

[Dr.Benway]

I am afraid it is, although not everybody seems to experience this problem. Mr. Medeksza stated in the past that he will work on a solution for this. Mr. Medeksza seems to visit this forum daily so I think it is safe to assume that he knows about problems like these.

[Ray_M]

Thank you for your help throughout this thread and for the information.

Over to you Mr. Medeksza, or anyone else at Zabaware.

Ray