You have festival installed. So you can open a command prompt and type
in this:
echo 'Hello World' | festival --tts
to get it working. The other tools - kttsd, kmouth, etc are all front
end tools that work on top of festival. Some are easier to understand
than others. Once I figured out the command line bit, I didn't have
need to use the GUI front ends any longer, but I did have a little more
knowledge to understand HOW to use them.
As for getting the other voices, I used a guide at Ubuntu Forums.
http://joeb454.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=751169
The voices are files that need to be installed into the Festival
directories. I didn't use the packages mentioned in that guide.
Instead I used the instructions in the "Installing the enhanced CMU
Arctic voices" voices section of the guide.
Hope that helps.
Shawn
Joe S wrote:
On February 6, 2010 08:23:00 pm Shawn wrote:
I'm currently using the CMU Arctic female voice. It's not bad.
Though it seems they have gone to recorded snippets of sounds and
are blending them together to build the words. So you end up with
some dis-connect in tones across some words. I could be wrong as I
haven't looked at this too deeply yet.
Still, I think the female voice does a better job than the default
male voice. But it'll be like picking a Linux distro - try out a few
till you find one that works for you.
Shawn
I'm having a hard time to get Festival working. I am using Kttsmgr. I
can't get any of the Talkers to work. I did a search for Festival.
These are the only packages I could find installed:
Debian:~# aptitude search ~dfestival
i festival - General multi-lingual
speech synthesis system
i A kttsd - a Text-to-Speech system
for KDE
i A libestools1.2 - Edinburgh Speech Tools
Library
I'm not sure what the package is called for:"
the CMU Arctic female voice"
I'm using Debian Lenny.
Thanks
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