The eSpeakPackage: Approach

Capabilities functions for use with MyroC/robots:

1. Initialize
   (Initial voice quality set randomly to "female" or "male")
2. Explicitly set voice sound to "vaguely female" or "vaguely male"
3. Send line of text to speech synthesizer

Since speech takes time, want

• to start speech
• speech itself to proceed independently from robot motion
  • if no concurrent speech and motion, long pauses of motion, while speech being generated
  • however speech and motion handled, synchronization challenging!

Use of eSpeak Package

Conceptual approach: Create two programs that run concurrently

• Robot control program
  • use MyroC to specify robot commands
  • send text, line-by-line to speech-synthesizer program
• Speech-synthesis program
  • receive text, line-by-line from robot control program
  • translate text into speech

created 27 January 2021 revised 30 January 2021

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