Linux TTS Voices

[Fred Roller]

Christopher Lemire wrote:
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>
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> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Kyle <kyle4jesus at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Speech-dispatcher provides access to a number of voice synthesis
>> programs through a single API. It currently supports eSpeak, flite,
>> TTSynth/IBMTTS/Voxin or whatever it's called, Festival and others. The
>> output voice can be configured however the user likes and the calling
>> application doesn't need to be aware of the configuration unless it
>> changes the output voice from the default.
>>
>> Spd-say is just the most simple and basic client for speech-dispatcher.
>> It basically just speaks whatever is sent to it. I'm not sure about what
>> the pipe mode does, but you can simply call spd-say with the text you
>> want spoken and it will speak using the default voice settings. For
>> something more complex, you can write your own standalone client or use
>> the speech-dispatcher API directly from within your application.
>>
>> Kyle
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>
> Could someone show me through the command line how espeak and mbrola 
> works together. I've tried this many times and different ways. The 
> examples I find online have paths to files that are not on an Ubuntu 
> computer unless they compiled them, but not from the packages.
> I can't further my project until I can see how this is working through 
> the command line.
>
> Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
> Ubuntu 64 bit Linux Raid Level 0
Sure, this was my last adjusted command from my notes:

# Final espeak w. mbrola

    espeak -s 200 -k 20 -v mb-en1 -m -f test_prose |mbrola -e en1/en1 - 
testprose.wav
   
Broken down:

    espeak (the first command)
       -s 200 (speed of speaker)
       -k 20 (pitch of capital letters, this is the recommended 20)
       -v mb-en1 (the mbrola voice to let espeak know you are using mbrola)
       -m (helps ignore html type code and allows usage of SSML)
       -f test_prose (my test text, found it easier to work from text 
files.  Also you may need to edit see the copy below)
       | (pipe to mbrola)
       mbrola (second command)
       -e en1/en1 (location of the language file, this is relative to my 
working directory [dir/file] or you can put an absolute path in as well.)
       - testprose.wav (output file)

Here is the test_prose file content, it's not much but does show some 
editing tweeks:

http://paste2.org/p/710564



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