[Dapper] Best way to access speech?

[Brian Fahrlander]

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Nils Kassube wrote:

>>     (Now that it is, is there any way to make it louder?)
> 
> Yes, there is - amixer will do the job. With the command
> 
> amixer -c <cardnum> contents
> 
> you get a listing of available controls for your sound card. <cardnum> is 
> the number of your sound card which is 0 if you have only one. From the 
> displayed list select the control you want to modify. E.g. my sound card 
> has this entry:
> 
> numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Playback Volume'
>   ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=2,min=0,max=64,step=0
>   : values=40,40
> 
> In the second line you can read the min. and max. control values, from the 
> third line you can read the current values if you want to restore them 
> later. Using the numid of the first line as a reference for the control I 
> set the max. volume with this command:
> 
> amixer -c <cardnum> cset numid=3 64,64

   Yeah, I already have that, even in some script files. In "angel" for
example, I set the main volume to 90%, play a random episode and turn it
back off upon exit.

   The problem is, with PCM at 70%, master at 70%, it sets a base line
for the audio....and once the speech kicks in, no matter what else is
blaring away, speech is only 1/3 the volume of anything else turned on.
 This is something Festival has always had a problem with- I'm not sure
why.  But the last time I  looked, it required all kinds of complicated
conjuring to turn it up.

   I seem to recall some sort of argument to festival that'll turn it
up,,,I'll keep looking, thanks.


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