3.5 Avoiding Initial Pauses

Festival inserts initial pause in each synthesized utterance. There is a good reason for it—speech starts from silence and thus the first diphone of the synthesized sample should be pause-first phoneme.

However there are some situations when the initial pause is undesirable. For instance, when reading characters in a speech enabled editor, the initial pauses slow down the reading. So festival-freebsoft-utils provide a way to disable the initial pause by making its effective duration zero.

First, you must load the corresponding code:

(require 'nopauses)

After this, there is a variable available controlling the initial pause insertion:

inhibit-initial-pauses

When set to a non-nil value, initial pauses are inhibited.

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