Text-to-speech in Ubuntu

[notlistening]

That is exactly what it means. So far I have tested it with the basic Microsoft voices that come free with Windows XP and Vista. I have also tried a purchased voice from Voice Ware, Kate 16 and she is singing on Linux using Orca .

The project is getting some well deserved love over the next week as I am on holiday. So there should be some good work happening.

Watch this space...

NL

[go_beep_yourself]

That is exactly what it means. So far I have tested it with the basic Microsoft voices that come free with Windows XP and Vista. I have also tried a purchased voice from Voice Ware, Kate 16 and she is singing on Linux using Orca .

The project is getting some well deserved love over the next week as I am on holiday. So there should be some good work happening.

Watch this space...

NL

Great, I hope to be able to use your program with mine to extend the voices available.

My project is here.

http://code.google.com/p/ttsreader/

[go_beep_yourself]

Hello,

I'm looking for a program where I highlight text and it will read the text. The problem with Ocra is that it's not on demand, it reads everything automatically. I'm looking for something that is on demand, only when I need it.

Thanks

Have you tried my application? It's still in early development, but there's more to come. Linux has two clipboards. One is the one most people are familiar with when you copy highlighted text. The other is called the selection buffer or X selection. It's buffer gets filled with text as soon as you highlight something. This is usually used in Linux to highlight some text and then push down the middle mouse button where you want to paste it. I've just figured out how to read that text with programming, so I can implement it in my program to read text as soon as it's highlighted. Currently my app reads what you highlight and copy to the primary clipboard.

You can download it here.
http://nanomachine.byethost22.com/files

[notlistening]

I like the idea of using your multimedia keys with such an application or global key/mouse (I like the idea of using my scroll wheel to skip) bindings that allows you to pause/resume skip back, skip forward, repeat etc. This could be done with a small notification area at the top right for example with the text in and highlighting a bit like text aloud when it is reading.

I have just developed the ability to provide RAW audio streams from SAPI with event tracking. So you can get information into your application such as the position of the word/sentence boundaries. This allows your app to process the audio stream as it wants and to skip around as the user requests with quite basic data stream work. This can be seen in Text Aloud, it is the way they highlight the current word when it is reading the text.

Not usable by other applications yet but will be soon.

[Ter Rymon]

I use gespeaker 0.8.1 and xsel to read text I've highlighted

add a short cut under system settings>keyboard>Shortcuts

Key:
Super+R
name:
Read Text
command:
bash -c "gespeaker --play-text=\"$(xsel | sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n/ /;ta')\""


gespeaker 0.8.1 can be installed from
code.google.com/p/gespeaker/downloads/list

xsel is in the ubuntu repository

sudo apt-get install xsel