[Cialug] text to speech

[Nathan C. Smith]

There is an inexpensive app used in the Asterisk camp - it's name is escaping me right now, but a single user license is $20, it works *very* well.  The voip-info.org wiki will probably be of assistance here.

There is another command in Festival something like txt2wav that you might try.  It converts the text into a wav file for playback rather than playing it back immediately - pipe it to a player?

-Nate 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of David Champion
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 5:29 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] text to speech
> 
> Just curious what people are using to read text to speech 
> stuff in Linux. I'm familiar with Festival. I tried a Firefox 
> plugin called FoxVox, but it's not working for me yet 
> (probably a config I need to do or something). I'd like to be 
> able to either read web pages, or just text files.
> 
> I'm having trouble with Festival, when I just do a simple tts 
> attempt like this:
> 
> festival -tts myfile.txt
> 
> It reads the file OK, but it will do some odd skipping, or 
> reading different words simultaneously. I'm wondering if it's 
> because I have a core2duo, and it's forking parts out to more 
> than one CPU? I've used festival in the past and never had 
> that kind of problem with it.
> 
> The other issue I have with festival is that it reads stuff 
> too fast, and doesn't pause at the natural places (like for 
> parenthesis, and punctuation, like this). Maybe that's a 
> setting... or I just need to train my ear to the way festival talks.
> 
> -dc
> 
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