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blaze Spinnaker

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03-17-2005 05:16

For anyone who doesn't want to record their voice but wouldn't mind uploading some speech quickly ..

Try this out

http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html

I used Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) to convert it it 41K sample rate (change the project rate, drop down is at the bottom left and then export to wav and upload).

Fiddling with the accents is kinda fun, though german / spanish / french doesn't work unless you type in german / spanish / french.

(LindenLabs .. integrate something like this!)

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Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :

"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."

Hank Ramos

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03-17-2005 05:18

There is a forum for feature requests.

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blaze Spinnaker

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03-17-2005 05:21

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Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :

"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."

Hank Ramos

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03-17-2005 05:22

Fickle?

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Adam Zaius

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Join date: 9 Jan 2004

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03-17-2005 06:00

1.6 could do it.

Make a "webpage" which outputs TTS samples on demand:

llSetParcelMediaCommandList([URL,path.to.you/site/script.ext?text=text_to_say]);

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blaze Spinnaker

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03-17-2005 06:54

Yeah, I thought of that.. but they use "post" and not "get".

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Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :

"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."

Adam Zaius

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03-17-2005 09:07

From: blaze Spinnaker

Yeah, I thought of that.. but they use "post" and not "get".

Either method is easily accessible from a server script.

PHP's $_REQUEST variable fills up with the contents of both $_GET and $_POST

-Adam

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blaze Spinnaker

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03-17-2005 09:24

Maybe, but why do you think they're using PHP?

Anyways, I've tried it. If you can get it to work, let me know.

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Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :

"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."

Adam Zaius

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Join date: 9 Jan 2004

Posts: 1,483

03-17-2005 10:04

From: blaze Spinnaker

Maybe, but why do you think they're using PHP?

Anyways, I've tried it. If you can get it to work, let me know.

No, I mean for recieving the request on the serverside.

It shouldnt be too hard. Something like the following PHP script on a linux box should do the trick:

CODE

<?php
$a = escapeshellargs($_REQUEST['text']);
$filename = '/tmp/' . time();
$output = `echo $a | text2wave -o $filename`;
header('Content-type: audio/wave');
echo file($filename);
?>

That's rough pseudocode (will need refinement) and it will require you to have the program 'festival' installed on your linux machine that you are hosting this from. (You will also want to clean up the $filename after the program has finished)

-Adam

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blaze Spinnaker

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03-17-2005 10:06

Heh, ok now where do I download text2wave

That'd be pretty cool

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Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :

"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."

Adam Zaius

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Join date: 9 Jan 2004

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03-17-2005 10:09

It's part of 'festival' - which is a TTS engine for linux.

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

-Adam

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blaze Spinnaker

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03-17-2005 10:12

ahhh.. This was where I was confused. Very cool!

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Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :

"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."

Eggy Lippmann

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Join date: 1 May 2003

Posts: 7,939

03-17-2005 10:59

I used that website to make wav files for the disco, back in 1.0. When you entered, it greeted you with something like "Welcome to the Second Life Disco", and the elevator also spoke.
I wasn't the first one, though. Christopher Omega had it at his lab in Tan (where I spent most of 1.0, coding with him).

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Text 2 Speech in SL, howto and feature request
blaze Spinnaker 1/2 Serious Join date: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 5,898	03-17-2005 05:16 For anyone who doesn't want to record their voice but wouldn't mind uploading some speech quickly .. Try this out http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html I used Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) to convert it it 41K sample rate (change the project rate, drop down is at the bottom left and then export to wav and upload). Fiddling with the accents is kinda fun, though german / spanish / french doesn't work unless you type in german / spanish / french. (LindenLabs .. integrate something like this!) _____________________ Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds : "User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."
Hank Ramos Lifetime Scripter Join date: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 2,328	03-17-2005 05:18 There is a forum for feature requests. _____________________
blaze Spinnaker 1/2 Serious Join date: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 5,898	03-17-2005 05:21 _____________________ Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds : "User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."
Hank Ramos Lifetime Scripter Join date: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 2,328	03-17-2005 05:22 Fickle? _____________________
Adam Zaius Deus Join date: 9 Jan 2004 Posts: 1,483	03-17-2005 06:00 1.6 could do it. Make a "webpage" which outputs TTS samples on demand: llSetParcelMediaCommandList([URL,path.to.you/site/script.ext?text=text_to_say]); _____________________ Co-Founder / Lead Developer GigasSecondServer
blaze Spinnaker 1/2 Serious Join date: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 5,898	03-17-2005 06:54 Yeah, I thought of that.. but they use "post" and not "get". _____________________ Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds : "User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."
Adam Zaius Deus Join date: 9 Jan 2004 Posts: 1,483	03-17-2005 09:07 From: blaze Spinnaker Yeah, I thought of that.. but they use "post" and not "get". Either method is easily accessible from a server script. PHP's $_REQUEST variable fills up with the contents of both $_GET and $_POST -Adam _____________________ Co-Founder / Lead Developer GigasSecondServer
blaze Spinnaker 1/2 Serious Join date: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 5,898	03-17-2005 09:24 Maybe, but why do you think they're using PHP? Anyways, I've tried it. If you can get it to work, let me know. _____________________ Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds : "User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."
Adam Zaius Deus Join date: 9 Jan 2004 Posts: 1,483	03-17-2005 10:04 From: blaze Spinnaker Maybe, but why do you think they're using PHP? Anyways, I've tried it. If you can get it to work, let me know. No, I mean for recieving the request on the serverside. It shouldnt be too hard. Something like the following PHP script on a linux box should do the trick: CODE <?php $a = escapeshellargs($_REQUEST['text']); $filename = '/tmp/' . time(); $output = `echo $a \| text2wave -o $filename`; header('Content-type: audio/wave'); echo file($filename); ?> That's rough pseudocode (will need refinement) and it will require you to have the program 'festival' installed on your linux machine that you are hosting this from. (You will also want to clean up the $filename after the program has finished) -Adam _____________________ Co-Founder / Lead Developer GigasSecondServer
blaze Spinnaker 1/2 Serious Join date: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 5,898	03-17-2005 10:06 Heh, ok now where do I download text2wave That'd be pretty cool _____________________ Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds : "User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."
Adam Zaius Deus Join date: 9 Jan 2004 Posts: 1,483	03-17-2005 10:09 It's part of 'festival' - which is a TTS engine for linux. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ -Adam _____________________ Co-Founder / Lead Developer GigasSecondServer
blaze Spinnaker 1/2 Serious Join date: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 5,898	03-17-2005 10:12 ahhh.. This was where I was confused. Very cool! _____________________ Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds : "User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."
Eggy Lippmann Wiktator Join date: 1 May 2003 Posts: 7,939	03-17-2005 10:59 I used that website to make wav files for the disco, back in 1.0. When you entered, it greeted you with something like "Welcome to the Second Life Disco", and the elevator also spoke. I wasn't the first one, though. Christopher Omega had it at his lab in Tan (where I spent most of 1.0, coding with him). _____________________ Help us document Second Life history at http://slhistory.org!

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