[Cialug] text to speech

[David Champion]

Yeah, I tried doing the text2wave method, and that seems to avoid the 
skipping / whatever that was issue I get when I use the "festival --tts" 
method.

-dc

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> 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