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<h1>FlightGear: Festival Voice Interface</h1>
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This page describes how to use FlightGear's voice interface to the Festival speech synthesis system, so that
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ATC, Pilot, etc. messages can be made audible. These messages are normally only displayed on top of the screen.
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A raw socket mode allows to send the messages to arbitrary servers.
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<h2>Quick instructions (assuming that you have Festival installed)</h2>
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<blockquote><pre>
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$ festival --server &
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$ fgfs --aircraft=j3cub --airport=KSQL --prop:/sim/sound/voices/enabled=true</pre></blockquote>
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Now, in FlightGear, enable ATC (in the menu under "ATC"->"Options"), press the '-key (apostrophe key) and
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send a message to the ATC. Hear "your" voice, that of the ATC, and some time later that of AI-planes.
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<h2>Installing the Festival system</h2>
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<li>
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Make sure Festival is installed, or download it from here:
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<a href="http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/">http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/</a>
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</li><li>
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Check if Festival works. Only the relevant lines are shown here. Note the parentheses!</li>
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<blockquote><pre>
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$ festival
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festival> (SayText "FlightGear")
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festival> (quit)</pre></blockquote>
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</li><li>
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Check if MBROLA is installed, or download it from here:
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<a href="http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/">http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/</a> -> "Downloads"
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-> "MBROLA binary and voices" (link at the bottom; hard to find). Choose the binary for your platform.
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Unfortunately, there's no source code available. If you don't like that, then you can skip the whole MBROLA
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setup. But then you can't use the more realistic voices. You can also install further MBROLA voices from
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this page. (See below)
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Run MBROLA and marvel at the help screen. That's just to check if it's in the path and executable.
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<blockquote><pre>
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$ mbrola -h</pre></blockquote>
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</ul>
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<h2>Installing more voices</h2>
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I'm afraid this is a bit tedious. You can skip it if you are happy with the default voice. First find the
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Festival data directory. All Festival data goes to a common file tree, like in FlightGear. This can be
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<tt>/usr/local/share/festival/</tt> on Unices. We'll call that directory <tt>$FESTIVAL</tt> for now.
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<ul>
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Check which voices are available. You can test them by prepending <tt>voice_</tt>:
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<blockquote><pre>
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$ festival
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festival> (print (mapcar (lambda (pair) (car pair)) voice-locations))
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(kal_diphone rab_diphone don_diphone us1_mbrola us2_mbrola us3_mbrola en1_mbrola)
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nil
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festival> (voice_us3_mbrola)
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festival> (SayText "I've got a nice voice.")
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festival> (quit)</pre></blockquote>
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Festival voices and MBROLA wrappers can be downloaded here:
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<a href="http://festvox.org/packed/festival/1.95/">http://festvox.org/packed/festival/1.95/</a>
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The "don_diphone" voice isn't the best, but it's comparatively small and well suited for "ai-planes".
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If you install it, it should end up as directory <tt>$FESTIVAL/voices/english/don_diphone/</tt>. You also need
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to install "festlex_OALD.tar.gz" for it as <tt>$FESTIVAL/dicts/oald/</tt> and run the Makefile in this
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directory. (You may have to add "<tt>--heap 10000000</tt>" to the festival command arguments in the Makefile.)
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</li><li>
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Quite good voices are "us2_mbrola", "us3_mbrola", and "en1_mbrola". For these you need to install
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MBROLA (see above) as well as these wrappers: <tt>festvox_us2.tar.gz</tt>, <tt>festvox_us3.tar.gz</tt>,
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and <tt>festvox_en1.tar.gz</tt>. They create directories <tt>$FESTIVAL/voices/english/us2_mbrola/</tt> etc.
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The voice <em>data</em>, however, has to be downloaded separately from another site:
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MBROLA voices can be downloaded from the MBROLA download page (see above). You want the
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voices labeled "us2" and "us3". Unpack them in the directories that the wrappers have created:
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<tt>$FESTIVAL/voices/english/us2_mbrola/</tt> and likewise for "us3" and "en1".
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</ul>
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<h2>Running FlightGear with voice support</h2>
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<li>First start the festival server:
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<blockquote><pre>
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$ festival --server</pre></blockquote>
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Start FlightGear with enabled voice subsystem, let's say with
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<blockquote><pre>
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$ fgfs --aircraft=j3cub --airport=KSQL --prop:/sim/sound/voices/enabled=true</pre></blockquote>
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Of course, you can put this option into your personal configuration file. This doesn't mean that
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you then <em>always</em> have to use FlightGear together with Festival. You'll just get a few
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error messages in the terminal window, but that's it. Note that you can currently <em>not</em>
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enable the voice subsystem at runtime!
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</li><li>
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Open the property browser to <tt>/sim/sound/voices/voice[0]/</tt> and write some text to the
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<tt>text</tt> property. You should now hear this spoken with the default voice ("voice_kal_diphone").
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You can try the same with <tt>voice[1]/</tt> etc. and should hear different voices if they
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are installed, or the default voice again otherwise.
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</li><li>
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Contact the KSFO ATC via '-key dialog (apostrophe key). You should hear "your" voice first (and see the
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text in yellow color on top of the screen), then you should hear ATC answer with a different voice (and see
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it in light-green color).
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</li><li>
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You can edit the voice parameters in the <tt>preferences.xml</tt> file, and select different
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screen colors and voice assignments in <tt>$FG_ROOT/Nasal/voice.nas</tt>. The messages aren't written
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to the respective <tt>/sim/sound/voices/voice[*]/text</tt> properties directly, but rather to aliases
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<tt>/sim/sound/voices/{atc,approach,ground,pilot,ai-plane}</tt>. (BTW: I've never heard anything from
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<tt>ground</tt> and <tt>approach</tt> yet.)
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</ul>
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<h2>Cofiguration & Internals</h2>
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The <em>voice</em> subsystem only offers the common subsystem functions to the rest of FlightGear.
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There's no built-in function to let it send data to the socket. The only way is to write to the
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respective speech properties. The number of available voices, or rather "channels", isn't hard-coded.
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It's the number of <voice> groups in "/sim/sound/voices" that decides how many channels should be
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opened. This is a typical setting of interface properties, whereby the aliases at the end have
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nothing to do with the subsystem, but are handy shortcuts:
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<blockquote><pre>
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<sim>
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<voices>
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<host type="string">localhost</host>
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<port type="string">1314</port>
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<enabled type="bool">false</enabled>
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<voice>
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<desc>Pilot</desc>
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<text type="string"></text>
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<volume type="double">1.0</volume>
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<pitch type="double">100.0</pitch>
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<speed type="double">1.0</speed>
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<preamble type="string">(voice_us3_mbrola)</preamble>
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<festival type="bool">true</festival>
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</voice>
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<voice>
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...
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</voice>
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<!-- handy aliases, not part of the interface: -->
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<atc alias="/sim/sound/voices/voice[0]/text"/>
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<approach alias="/sim/sound/voices/voice[0]/text"/>
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<ground alias="/sim/sound/voices/voice[0]/text"/>
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<pilot alias="/sim/sound/voices/voice[1]/text"/>
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<copilot alias="/sim/sound/voices/voice[2]/text"/>
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<ai-plane alias="/sim/sound/voices/voice[3]/text"/>
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</voices>
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</sim>
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</pre></blockquote>
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The <enabled> property decides at init time whether the subsystem should
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be activated or not. There's currently no way to change this at runtime.
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Each <voice> group defines one channel. <text> is the output
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property. Every value that's written to it will be spoken by this channel.
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If <festival> is true, then the channel will set up <pitch> and
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<speed> (<volume> does currently not work and has to be <tt>1</tt>),
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and puts Festival markup around the text. If <festival> is false,
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then all text is written verbatim to the socket. <preamble> is always
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written to the socket once as last step of the socket creation. In "festival"
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mode it's used to set the voice, while in raw mode it could be used to identify
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the channel (assuming that the server knows what to do with it).
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<h2>Usage</h2>
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The design principle is that message generators (e.g. the ATC subsystem) write
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to a message property (e.g. <tt>/sim/messages/pilot</tt>). A listener ($FG_ROOT/Nasal/screen.nas)
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watches this property and decides what to do with it. For pilot and ATC it writes the message
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to the screen.log and copies it to the <tt>/sim/sound/voices/pilot</tt> property. This
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is an alias to the real voice channel <tt>/sim/sound/voices/voice[1]/text</tt>.
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This allows the most control and makes all steps user-configurable from Nasal
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scripts. Message generator should <em>not</em> write to the voice's <text>
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property directly, and only to the <tt>/sim/sound/voices/*</tt> aliases if a
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message should not be displayed by the system.
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