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Question about Text To Speech W/ Esound

Posted by Cliff on from the spoken-word dept.

Henry Cipolla asks: "Somebody recently asked a question about text to speech with Linux. Following the links brought me to festival, but I could not find anything that worked happily with Esound. Does anybody know of any hacks or patches or whatnot that will allow some sort of text to speech under Esound?"

7 comments

  1. Save the outputted speech first by mind21_98 · · Score: 1

    Save the outputted speech from festival first then play it with EsounD:

    esdcat /path/to/output/file

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    1. Re:Save the outputted speech first by Tool-Man · · Score: 1

      I wouldn't describe that as "works happily with Esound" though :)

  2. esddsp by Ethan · · Score: 3

    I had good luck using esddsp with festival. It does seem to produce its output at 8bit, though, and does not sound as good as without EsounD. It is very understandable, though.

    There may be a way to fix those minor caveats, I didn't spend much time on it. It worked well enough for me. *And* I could redirect the audio to another server for extra kicks... It's great to watch someone jump as their computer starts talking to them!
    Ethan

  3. easier text to speach ? by josepha48 · · Score: 1

    I am curious if there is any easier text to speach program out there. Or a library?

    Or if there are any text editors (other than emacs or vi) that allow you to have the text read to you?

    I have heard about emacs speak, but I am more interested in a simple GUI text editor that will do text to speach under Linux.

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    1. Re:easier text to speach ? by gavinhall · · Score: 1

      Posted by fingers_:

      I also use festival because I found irssi (irc client) had a speech plugin. You could easily write a simple plugin to work with gEdit and do this for you. Festival works real nice with esddsp
      . Too bad my machine is slow and irssi insists on reading people's hostnames/ip's which makes stuff *slow*.

      And I'm sick of the englishman's voice...

  4. Re:easier text to speech ? by Ethan · · Score: 1

    I didn't care much for it, either, so I got the american pronunciation version. (kal-diphone, I believe) Poke around on the Festival homepage and you're sure to find it!
    Ethan

  5. text to speech by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    SGI released an open sourced text to speech C
    code a while back which i played around with.
    it does work on linux with tweaks and sounds
    reasonably mechanoid. anyone wants it i can
    post it up somewhere..post me an anon FTP site
    and i'll whack it up in uploads. Alternatively
    you can d/l it from SGI's developers page.
    free registration required, 28 days free access.