Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!!
This is mainly for Debian LINUX users. I just got festival and tried it yesterday. I didn't hear anything. Looks like additional packages are needed. Here are all the related needed packages: Text to speech software: apt-get install kdeaccessibility apt-get install sox apt-get install xsltproc Related Document: http://docs.kde.org/en/3.4/kdeacces...using-kapp.html Festival is also needed for this: Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It includes a Scheme-based command interpreter. Besides research into speech synthesis, festival is useful as a stand-alone speech synthesis program. It is capable of producing clearly understandable speech from text. festival festival-doc Vijay _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com
rvijay07 wrote:
This is mainly for Debian LINUX users. I just got festival and tried it yesterday. I didn't hear anything. Looks like additional packages are needed.
If your sure that your sound system is working OK outside festival, you are probably missing one of the voices. $ apt-cache search festvox festvox-kallpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz festvox-kallpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz festvox-kdlpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz festvox-kdlpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz flite - A small run-time speech synthesis engine festvox-don - minimal British English male speaker for festival festvox-rablpc16k - British English male speaker for festival, 16khz festvox-rablpc8k - British English male speaker for festival, 8khz festvox-ellpc11k - Castilian Spanish male speaker for Festival $ echo "Festival is great" | festival --tts Richard
rvijay07 wrote:
This is mainly for Debian LINUX users. I just got festival and tried it yesterday. I didn't hear anything. Looks like additional packages are needed.
Here are all the related needed packages:
Text to speech software:
apt-get install kdeaccessibility
apt-get install sox
apt-get install xsltproc
Related Document: http://docs.kde.org/en/3.4/kdeacces...using-kapp.html
Festival is also needed for this:
fwiw: Fedora-Core and RedHat9 ship with festival rpms. Seems to work right out of the box. The fedora versions sound better than the rh9 on the systems I've tried, but that may be due to different hardware.
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