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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dear Brian,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I am running an Olympus-based dialog system in my
desktop pc (Intel Core 2, 2.4GHz, 2GB ram). Everything is OK!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My problems start when my partners try to
run it to the real embedded system of the project (VIA PICO-ITX
board --> <STRONG>1GHz</STRONG> VIA C7, <STRONG>1GB
RAM</STRONG>). TTS engine (KalliopeFlite) is too slow..That means
that play-back of the prompts sounds too "sparsely"..(it sounds like a
robot saying words syllable-by-syllable..)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I noticed that KalliopeFlite occupies a significant
amount of cpu (in my desktop pc reaches up to 25-29%) even when
a short-length prompt is played back. </FONT> <FONT size=2
face=Arial>I also noticed that approx. the same cpu amount is occupied even when
KalliopeSAPI is used instead of KalliopeFlite. So, I suspect that cpu
effort has to do with kalliope core-code and not the specific tts I may
use..</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>What's your opinion? Am I "missing"
something?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Has kalliope and/or flite indeed had such
performance problems?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>If so, is there any way to make kalliope
faster? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>What are the minimum requirements (cpu / ram) in
order to have satisfactory tts performance? Are cpu 1GHZ / ram
1 GB "enough" for having an acceptable performance?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Mention here that I use the "official" Olympus
version (v. 2.2). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks in advance</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Nikos Katsaounos</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>WCL / University of Patras -
Greece</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>