[clug-talk] Speech?

[Shawn]

You have festival installed.  So you can open a command prompt and type 
in this:

echo 'Hello World' | festival --tts

to get it working.  The other tools - kttsd, kmouth, etc are all front 
end tools that work on top of festival.  Some are easier to understand 
than others.  Once I figured out the command line bit, I didn't have 
need to use the GUI front ends any longer, but I did have a little more 
knowledge to understand HOW to use them.

As for getting the other voices, I used a guide at Ubuntu Forums.

http://joeb454.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=751169

The voices are files that need to be installed into the Festival 
directories.  I didn't use the packages mentioned in that guide. 
Instead I used the instructions in the "Installing the enhanced CMU 
Arctic voices" voices section of the guide.

Hope that helps.

Shawn

Joe S wrote:
> On February 6, 2010 08:23:00 pm Shawn wrote:
>> I'm currently using the CMU Arctic female voice.  It's not bad.
>>  Though it seems they have gone to recorded snippets of sounds and
>> are blending them together to build the words.  So you end up with
>> some dis-connect in tones across some words.  I could be wrong as I
>> haven't looked at this too deeply yet.
>>
>> Still, I think the female voice does a better job than the default
>> male voice.  But it'll be like picking a Linux distro - try out a few
>> till you find one that works for you.
>>
>> Shawn
> 
> I'm having a hard time to get Festival working. I am using Kttsmgr. I 
> can't get any of the Talkers to work. I did a search for Festival.
> These are the only packages I could find installed:
> 
> Debian:~# aptitude search ~dfestival
> i   festival                                   - General multi-lingual 
> speech synthesis system
> i A kttsd                                      - a Text-to-Speech system 
> for KDE
> i A libestools1.2                              - Edinburgh Speech Tools 
> Library
> 
> I'm not sure what the package is called for:"
> the CMU Arctic female voice"
> I'm using Debian Lenny.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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