Hello all,
I have a working speech solution that I'd been playing with over the years, part of which includes integration with FreeTTS. I'm using a client server model and trying to figure out how to adjust the volume on the generated speech that I write to the output stream. There appears to be two approaches in FreeTTS. There's the standard JSAPI approach in which there is volume control in the Synthesizer API but there doesn't appear to be an API call to link an output stream to the outgoing voice. Then there's the non standard FreeTTS API where you can link the VoiceEngine to any audio sink but I can't seem to adjust the volume with this API. has anyone had any experience in the client/server model for FreeTTS? Any tips/pointers/advice? FWIW I also started evaluating Mary and it looks a little better with easier voice additions out of the box. I understand some of Mary's surrounding tools use C/C++ Perl, etc. but is Mary all Java? In otherwords, can a properly configured Mary server run stand-alone in a JVM without .dll or .so dependencies?