[clug-talk] re text to speach

[Dan Mueller]

Thanx Martin for the input. I will look at the cepstral website to try and
get this thing working.  If anyone can help me with the sound part of it, I
would be greatful.



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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:12:29 -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,

Unfortunately I have only had experience with text to speech on our 
Asterisk PBX's and not on a standalone PC.
There is some information here in getting Cepstral to work with kde
http://cepstral.com/cgi-bin/support?page=faq&type=i386-linux#kde

and there are a number of other FAQ's available.

I also know that you need to enter the license key for the Cepstral voice.

As far as getting ktts to work with the Aspire and it's sound card, 
unfortunately this is beyond my realm of experience, but I would think 
that this would need to be fixed first before anything else. Do you have 
sound in other applications?

Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Martin





Dan Mueller wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
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