JSpeak - The Ultimate in Linux Text-to-Speach Software
JSpeak Demo
http://www.youtube.com/embed/raEUJraXvwY
Full instructions located at
https://github.com/BullShark/JSpeak
or just use the ones below.
Installation and Usage
Ubuntu/Debian/Mint:
*Note:* There is a bug in Mint with it's espeak and pulseaudio, not the app itself. However these bugs do not affect the program, and it still opperates just fine and good.
Code:
sudo apt-get install espeak mbrola
Choose your voices. There are many, but for all english ones, do
Code:
sudo apt-get install mbrola-us1 mbrola-us2 mbrola-us3 mbrola-en1
Many mbrola voices can be installed through apt-get in Ubuntu/Mint. Some such as mbrola-mx1 are not available through apt. If you wish to install those. Follow the manual installation below for them.
Fedora/Suse:
Fedora and other rpm based systems do not have mbrola and mbrola packages afaik. However this is not a problem. Continue to follow the manual installation for them.
Manual installation of mbrola and mbrola voices (From the espeak/mbrola docs)
*Linux Installation*
From eSpeak version 1.44 onwards, eSpeak calls the mbrola program directly, rather than passing phoneme data to it using a pipe. 1. To install the Linux Mbrola binary, download: http://www.tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis...ux/mbr301h.zip Unpack the archive, and copy and rename the file from: mbrola-linux-i386 to mbrola somewhere in your executable path (eg. /usr/bin/mbrola ). 2. Get the en1 voice from: http://www.tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis...brcopybin.html Unpack the archive, and copy the *en1* data file (not the whole "en1" directory) to /usr/share/mbrola/en1. eSpeak will look for mbrola voices firstly in espeak-data/mbrola and then in /usr/share/mbrola *Note:* Get as many voices as you like. Each will show in the voice selection combo box. 3. If you use the eSpeak voice such as "*mb-en1*" then eSpeak will use the mbrola "en1" voice, eg:
Code:
espeak -v mb-en1 "Hello world"
*Note:* This step is just for testing that everything is setup and working correctly.
Obtaining and running the app.
Code:
wget https://github.com/downloads/BullShark/JSpeak/JSpeak.tbz
tar -xf JSpeak.jar
cd JSpeak java -jar JSpeak.jar
OR Obtain the app from git and run.
Code:
git clone git://github.com/BullShark/JSpeak.git
cd JSpeak/dist java -jar JSpeak.jar
Usage
1. Toggle on the scan button (has a diamond icon). Hover your mouse over other buttons for descriptions.
2. (Optional) Change the voice from the drop down menu of the combo box to set a better sounding mbrola voice.
3. Start copying text from your favourite ebook, the web, email, etc. to begin having the text read to you.
Windows Users:
Install Linux
Help/Support
If you enjoy this software, please consider making a small donation to the programmer, so he can continue to maintain and create new software to help everyday users. That can be done at my blog, http://linuxinnovations.blogspot.com Thank you.
Re: JSpeak - The Ultimate in Linux Text-to-Speach Software
i was going to complain that you had me wget a .tbz then tar into a .jar and how all the commands are not easy for me, i like to blindly copy and paste!!!!
then the windows instructions made me laugh
Re: JSpeak - The Ultimate in Linux Text-to-Speach Software
Quote:
Originally Posted by
mrhhug
i was going to complain that you had me wget a .tbz then tar into a .jar and how all the commands are not easy for me, i like to blindly copy and paste!!!!
then the windows instructions made me laugh
Calm down dude :)
Re: JSpeak - The Ultimate in Linux Text-to-Speach Software
Quote:
Originally Posted by
mrhhug
i was going to complain that you had me wget a .tbz then tar into a .jar and how all the commands are not easy for me, i like to blindly copy and paste!!!!
tbz is the same as tar.bz. Use this command to extract it.
Do not extract the JSpeak.jar file. Run it with
Code:
java -jar JSpeak.jar
Would it be easier for you if I wrote an install script that got all the dependencies and places a menu icon in the GUI for you to run it from?
I just noticed the first post has all the commands on the same line and there's not an edit this post button for me to fix it.
You don't ever have to blindly copy and paste commands. You can read the man pages and online what they do. These are pretty simple commands.
