Re: Speaker test "features" request

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 22 Jun 2005 04:26:17 -0700 (PDT),
Tom Watson wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:22:17 +0800
> > From: Raymond <rayau@netvigator.com>
> 
> <<<deletia>>>
> > 
> > I notice that there are female voice wav files in samples subdirectory.
> > 
> > ls speaker-test/samples
> > Front_Center.wav  Makefile     Noise.wav        Rear_Right.wav 
> > Side_Right.wav
> > Front_Left.wav    Makefile.am  Rear_Center.wav  sample_map.csv
> > Front_Right.wav   Makefile.in  Rear_Left.wav    Side_Left.wav
> > 
> > 
> > Is there an option to use female voice instead of pink noise, sine wave ?
> > 
> 
> As noted in the next message (removed) this isn't supported yet.  In doing
> many "more than 2 channel" tests I offer the following suggestions and
> observations  for implementation of a voice channel identification:
> 1)  Everyone calls the channels by different names
> 2)  Many people don't speak English.

The texts are already i18nized on CVS.  Provide an appropriate po file
for your locale.  Also, we can store voice files in different
directories per locale (if any).

> 3)  If you are poking around waiting for the identifiers to come back to
>     the channel you are working on is a $%^&*%$#@ pain.

Will be solved when (6) is implemeneted?

> 4)  Just call the channels "one" "two" "three", etc...

Doable, but I don't think we have much of this demand.

> 5)  Put out an id map in text when the voice identifier starts that
>     indicates the correspondence.

I think it's already so?

> 6)  Voice ALL the channels at the same time.  You could be feeding a mixer
>     board (or other similar instrument) and desire to get everything setup.
>     Most mixer boards have a "solo" feature which is helpful in this regard.

This would be nice as an option.

> 7)  (MCP Comment) Female voice is nice.  Takes the geek edge off of it all.

:)

> 8)  This is a really nice utility to have around.  It proves out the
>     playback system.
> 9)  Perhaps we can get a "professional voice" to do this.  Fame and notoriety
>     for the "Open source" voice.  Anyone have any contacts?

These are welcome, of course :)


Takashi


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