Linux TTS Voices

[Fred Roller]

Christopher Lemire wrote:
> 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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>>>
>>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Fred
>> www.fwrgallery.com
>>
>> "Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing 
>> something wrong."
>>
>>
>>
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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
When you downloaded mbrola did you get /their/ language package?  In 
this case "en1".  I placed my language package relative to my working 
directory.  The full path for *my* system was:

    /Crypt/Software/mbrola/en1/

If I were to run the command with absolute paths then it would look 
something like:

   
        espeak -s 200 -k 20 -v mb-en1 -m "this is a test using mbrola 
with espeak" |mbrola -e /Crypt/Software/mbrola/en1/en1 - test.wav

hope this helps.

-- 
Fred
www.fwrgallery.com

"Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing something wrong."