[clug-talk] text to speach

[Dan Mueller]

Re; Text to speech.

 Hello Simon and Martin. Thanx for the info on text to speech system. I have
downloaded festival, kttsmgr and I think the other one was flite (not 100%
sure on last one ) this gives me 2 icons on my acer aspire and eeepc. One
says kmouth and the other kttsmgr. I also bought a voice from cepstral.
Neither one works so far. Im trying to get them to work on my aspire first.
 On the acer running eeenetbook remix I try to click on the ktts icon and a
screen pops up saying that "audio playback device HDA intel ALC268 analog is
not working" when I go to the configure tabs to audio, I have 2 choices. Kde
phonon or alsa. In alsa I have afew options under a sub heading called
device; #1 default, 
	#2 default:0 HAD intel ALC268 analog
	#3 plughw:0<0 HAD intel alc268 analog
	#4 custom

 I have tried all three options and don't know what to put into #4.

 What settings do I need to change to get it to talking? Also, to add the
voice that I tried.... it told me to run in a terminal box which I did. Than
read to bottom and answer "yes" than to creat a new ?opt/swift directory and
so on. It didn't do it on its own. I than created the directories manually
but it still wont add the voice to those files. Probably something simple
that im missing. Im wondering if I might need a response from the tech side.
Also do I need to get "kate" from apt get for it to read from?? I think that
there is where it says to read from???

 Thanx in advance for your help.

Dan




Today's Topics:

   1. text to speach (Dan Mueller)
   2. Re: text to speach (simon at mungewell.org)
   3. Re: server monitoring (Evandro Miquelito)
   4. Re: text to speach (Martin Glazer)


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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:30:34 -0600
From: "Dan Mueller" <danm at reliable-tube.com>
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Anyone know a good text to speech program for the Linux platform??

 

Dan 

 

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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:32:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: simon at mungewell.org
Subject: Re: [clug-talk] text to speach
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Define 'good'....

You could try festival and flite.
Simon

> Anyone know a good text to speech program for the Linux platform??
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:17:58 -0600
From: Martin Glazer <linux at glazer.ca>
Subject: Re: [clug-talk] text to speach
To: CLUG General <clug-talk at clug.ca>
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Hi Dan,

Besides the 2 already mentioned, you may want to look at Cepstral 
(www.cepstral.com) for good quality "voices", however they aren't free 
but certainly worth the price.

Martin

Dan Mueller wrote:
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> Anyone know a good text to speech program for the Linux platform??
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> Dan