EMIC 2 Speech-to-Text phonome command doesn't work.

DougP

I've been Working with the EMIC 2 Text-to-Speech Module (#30016) with mostly good results. But I'm trying to use the [:phoneme] command with the DECtalk parser with no success.

I tried the following string which is straight from the EMI 2 documentation (30016-Emic-2-Text-To-Speech-Documentation-v1.1.1.pdf), but the module just ignores it.

S[:phone arpa speak on][:rate 100][:n0][ow<200,18>ow<200,15> sey<400,11> kae<400,15>n yu<400,18>w siy<600,23>]

Not sure if its supposed to be 'phone' or 'phoneme' so I tried both with the same unsuccessful result.

Ultimately, I am trying to generate a few trivial musical-like tones. Hoping some phonetic symbols will be close enough.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Ron Czapala

Here is an example for Daisy, Daisy that I know works.
Maybe it is a problem with your wiring setup. What microcontroller are you using?

Posting your code will be helpful.

v5
S[:phone arpa speak on][:rate 200][:n0][:dv sm 100 hs 100][dey<650,22>ziy<600,19> dey<650,15>ziy<600,10>gih<200,12>v miy<200,14> yurr<200,15> ae<400,12>nsax<200,15>r duw<750,10>_<400,10>][:n0][:dv sm 100 hs 100][ay<600,17>m hxae<500,22>f kr ey<650,19>ziy<600,15> ao<200,12>llfao<200,14>r dhax<200,15> llah<400,17>v ao<200,19>v yu<750,17> _<400,17>][:n0][:dv sm 100 hs 100][ih<200,19>twow<200,20>nt biy<200,19> ax<200,17> stay<500,22>llih<200,19>shmae<350,17>rih<400,15>jh<150,15>][:n0][:dv sm 100 hs 100][ay<200,17> kae<400,19>nt ax<200,15>fow<400,12>rdax<200,15> kae<350,12>rih<400,10>jh<150,10>][:n0][:dv sm 100 hs 100][bah<200,10>t yu<500,15>d lluh<200,19>kswiy<400,17>t ah<200,10>p ao<500,15>n dhax<200,19> siy<200,17>t ao<200,17>v ah<200,19>bay<200,22>six<200,19>kel<200,15> bih<400,17>llt fao<200,10>r tuw<800,15>][:n0]

DougP

Success!

I found that I needed to terminate the string with "[:n0]". I guess it's obvious from the documentation now that I look again.

There may be a few more idiosyncrasies when mixing phonetic with straight text. I'll post some more results after I have a chance to experiment.

Publison

Great that you got it working! Just got mine today to help you along with your problem.

Seems like you're on your way.