[Solved] Text-to-speech software.

[Alex]

I want to install some TTS program for Linux. After a search I found this YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2VbcoCw_oM

So I followed the instructions and installed both Festival and Xsel then I followed his entries into the command line, but somehow his results differed from mine:



I am not sure what I did wrong...

All i wanted was a TTS GUI interface...can anyone help?

THanks

[shengchieh]

cat <<eof > talk.sh  not cat <<eof >> talk.sh

eof = end of file
You are seeing > instead of $ before the chmod command.  This means you didn't end the file.  Hence I looked back and saw you appended to talk.sh instead of just create talk.sh .

Sheng-Chieh

[Alex]

Thanks heaps...I looked for ages but I could not see it. I guess that it would help heaps if I knew what I was doing! Lol

[Alex]

BTW what a great web site you have!

[N4RPS]

He336!

A number of programs use Festival to speak text. I use a Bible program called Xiphos that will speak any verses or other text you highlight.

Having played around with Festival some myself, most of the voices I've found sound like Stephen Hawking. If anybody runs into some more natural-sounding ones, let us know...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[Alex]

After my failed attempts at using the terminal, I went to the Lubumtu Software centre and downloaded "eSpeak speech synthesizer" . It works very well, altough it has only 2 voices, but you can adjust the speed.

You just copy the text you want read and paste it into the eSpeak window, then just press play.

[shengchieh]

You can run espeak w/o espeak window - I do it all the time.  My script file has

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#
# runs eSpeak with twice the volume and 150 wpm
#
espeak -a 200 -s 150  -f $1eSpeak.txt -w $1.wav

where $1 is a wildcard.