Text to Speech

[NewAmercnClasic]

This is exactly what I've been looking for. I always wonder why so many Linux apps just don't work out-of-the-box and have simple GUIs, like KTTS/Kmouth and Festival.

This should be integrated into the next Ubuntu as a default app. Its small and very, very useful.

I agree.

[honeybear]

Howdy,
I just installed Ubuntu 7.04 and I really like it, especially its speed compared to XP. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get any text to speech software to work yet. If I could get a speech synthesiser to read text for me like I can with windows (using "TextAloud MP3"), I could abandon that other OS altogether, as 'reading' news is what I do most with this PC.
Is there any good text-to-speech software that will run in Ubuntu? I've read about and downloaded something called "Festival" but I don't know what to do with all those files and I've read that it doesn't have a GUI. Any tips to have me listening to my text would be very welcome.

I can code for you many things using festival.

I pilot a computer over irda, and festival does the rest. I use a bit of speech recognition when I am alone in office and home.

PM me if you would like help.

[honeybear]

Lucid LTS + Virtualbox + WinXP + Ivona trial version works perfectly. Just make sure you give the VM plenty of disk space.

I'd be uncomfortable paying for it as it needs virtualbox and windows. But if it could be installed thought the ubuntu software centre, I wouldn't hesitate for a moment.

Not bad. I have found this script. It works for me for few words.

#!/bin/sh


ProcFestival() {
  if [ "$1" = "--festival" ]   ; then 
    echo "$2" | festival --tts
  fi
}

ProcIncreaseMic() {
  amixer -q -c $VALMIC   set 'Mic',1 100%
  amixer -q -c $VALMIC   set 'Mic',0 100%
}

ProcMic() {
  if  [ "$1" = "--checkmic" ] ||  [ "$1" = "--mic" ]  ||  [ "$1" = "--hwmic" ] ; then
    CARDNBR=` arecord -l | grep "^card "  | sed 's/://g' | awk ' { print $2 }  '  `
    [ "$2" = "--debug" ] && echo "$CARDNBR"
    if [ "$1" = "--mic"  ] ||  [ "$1" = "--checkmic"  ] ; then 
      [ "$2" != "" ]  && CHMIC=` echo "$CARDNBR" | grep $2  ` 
      if [ "$CHMIC" = "" ] ; then 
        VALMIC=` echo "$CARDNBR" | tail -n 1 `
        ProcIncreaseMic
        echo "$VALMIC"
      else
        VALMIC="$2"
        ProcIncreaseMic
        echo "$VALMIC"
      fi
    fi 
  fi
}

if [ "$1" = "custom" ] ; then 
  mkdir -p $HOME/tmp/custom 
  wget http://pastebin.ca/raw/2199967  -O $HOME/tmp/custom/sample.dfa
  wget http://pastebin.ca/raw/2199968 -O $HOME/tmp/custom/sample.dict
  wget http://pastebin.ca/raw/2199969 -O $HOME/tmp/julian-custom.jconf
  echo "Custom fetched and done"
  exit
fi

if [ "$1" = "install" ] ; then 
  mkdir -p $HOME/tmp/ 
  cd $HOME/tmp 
  if [ ! -f  Julius-3.5.2-Quickstart-Linux_AcousticModel-2011-07-21.tgz ] ; then
    wget http://www.repository.voxforge1.org/downloads/Nightly_Builds/AcousticModel-2011-07-21/Julius-3.5.2-Quickstart-Linux_AcousticModel-2011-07-21.tgz  -O  Julius-3.5.2-Quickstart-Linux_AcousticModel-2011-07-21.tgz
  fi 
  tar xvpfz Julius-3.5.2-Quickstart-Linux_AcousticModel-2011-07-21.tgz 
  echo "It might be installed."
  exit
fi


if [ "$1" = "voc" ] ; then 
  cd 
  cd tmp
  cd bin
  vim sample.voca
  ./mkdfa.pl sample
  exit
fi


FETCHMIC=` ProcMic --mic "$2"  `
echo "Fetchmic : $FETCHMIC"
AUDIODEV=` echo  "/dev/dsp${FETCHMIC}" | awk ' {gsub("dsp0","dsp") ; print $0  }   '`
export AUDIODEV ;  echo  $AUDIODEV  
counter=1

cd
cd  tmp

if  [ ! -f julian-custom.jconf ] ; then 
  echo "custom/julian.jconf not found"
  echo "Please run-it with custom or install"
  exit
fi


./julian -demo -input mic -C julian-custom.jconf | while read -r  i ; do 

if [ $counter -eq 130 ] || [ $counter -eq 129 ] ; then
  echo "** READY * Please Speak **"
fi

if [ $counter -ge 129 ] ; then
  echo "**$counter** $i **"


  CHPAS=` echo "$i" | grep "sentence1: <s>" `
  echo "CHPAS $CHPAS" 
  if [ "$CHPAS" != ""  ]  ; then 
    echo "FOUND CHPAS $CHPAS" 
    FOUND=""
    FOUND=`echo "$i" | awk ' { print $3  }    '`
    ProcFestival --festival "$FOUND"


    if [ "$LAST" != "ZERO" ]   &&  [ "$FOUND" = "ZERO" ]   ; then 
      ProcFestival --festival "The Command is $FOUND"

      # here add whatever you would like linux to do ...
      [ "$LAST" = "ONE" ]   && xterm &
      [ "$LAST" = "TWO" ]   && audacious &
      [ "$LAST" = "THREE" ]   && xclock &
      [ "$LAST" = "NINE" ]   && date | festival  --tts &
      # ...
    fi
    LAST="$FOUND"
  fi 
fi

counter=$(( $counter +1))
done

[go_beep_yourself]

https://github.com/BullShark/JSpeak

[BradDear]

In gespeaker, is there a script that allows you to modify the common words and contractions (such as e.g. = for example, i.e. = that is, etc = et cetera)?

I've been looking for this in the source code, but I can't seem to find it.