Linux TTS Voices

[Christopher Lemire]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Fred Roller <froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:
> Christopher Lemire wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>>  Each and every day.
>>> --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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Thank you for that information. Unfortunately, it didn't work on my machine. Do you have some packages installed I do not? Here is the error I got and the packages with espeak or mbrola in their names.

chris at ubuntu910:~$ espeak -s 200 -k 20 -v mb-en1 -m "this is a test using mbrola with espeak" |mbrola -e en1/en1 - test.wav
FATAL ERROR : cannot find file en1/en1 !
chris at ubuntu910:~$ dpkg -l | grep espeak\|mbrola
chris at ubuntu910:~$ dpkg -l | grep "espeak\|mbrolaC"
ii  espeak                               1.41.01-0ubuntu1                           A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer
ii  espeak-data                          1.41.01-0ubuntu1                           A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer:
ii  gespeaker                            0.7-1                                      GTK+ front-end for eSpeak and mbrola
ii  libespeak1                           1.41.01-0ubuntu1                           A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer:
ii  stardict-plugin-espeak               3.0.1-5                                    International dictionary - eSpeak TTS plugin
chris at ubuntu910:~$ 

Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
Ubuntu 64 bit Linux Raid Level 0
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