drmfinlay
Very long pauses
I use this app with this engine https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.ttsengine/. But this app takes extremely long pauses between the sentences. When I input the text into the app https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.ttsengine/ directly, there are no long pauses. I tried several changes in the preferences but they don't make any difference.
Hello @sandoxy,
Thank you for opening this issue.
I think this problem has already been mentioned in issue #46 as occuring because TTS Util processes text in chunks. This is unavoidable when working with Android's text-to-speech API and, to my knowledge, has only been a problem with SherpaTTS. That app is able to avoid the delay because it synthesises input text more directly.
In any event, I will do some testing and try to resolve the problem in the next release. If you have not already done so, try to set each of TTS Util's "Silent Utterances" settings to "Let the engine decide" and see it if that helps.
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I use this app with this engine https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.ttsengine/. But this app takes extremely long pauses between the sentences. When I input the text into the app https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.ttsengine/ directly, there are no long pauses. I tried several changes in the preferences but they don't make any difference.
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Okay, I have done some testing. This problem differs from that of issue #46. Trying with the settings changes I recommended above, these pauses between sentences appear to be introduced by SherpaTTS itself.
However, they do not occur when using SherpaTTS' own input text field. Nor do they occur in wave files generated by TTS Util/SherpaTTS from the same input. Not with the eng (en-vctk) model I selected anyway.
@woheller69, any ideas? This behaviour occurs with only one call to TextToSpeech.speak().
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sandoxy created an issue (drmfinlay/tts-util-app#49)
I use this app with this engine https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.ttsengine/. But this app takes extremely long pauses between the sentences. When I input the text into the app https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.ttsengine/ directly, there are no long pauses. I tried several changes in the preferences but they don't make any difference.
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Have you tried a different model? Maybe there are "hidden" characters that make the model pause.
@csukuangfj, do you have any ideas?
