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.
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