Festival
Open-source text to speech project http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ .
Festival can be used in at least 3 modes:
Festival modes
- interactive
$ festival > (Say Text "Hello World")
- pipe from stdin
$ cat letter.txt | festival --tts
- saving to file
- text2wave - convert text to .wav files
- lame - converts .wav to mp3
$ cat letter.txt | text2wave | lame - file.mp3
- server
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using different voices
diphone voices
To installing the standard Festvox diphone voices in Debain/Ubunto
$ apt-get cache search festvox* $ apt-get install festvox-don festvox-rablpc16k festvox-kallpc16k festvox-kdlpc16k
Now that you have some diphone voices installed you can test them in intereactive mode
List existing voices
festival> (voice.list) (cstr_us_awb_arctic_multisyn kal_diphone don_diphone)
Set a voice: Note voice_name_from_voice
festival> (voice_cstr_us_awb_arctic_multisyn)
MBROLA voices
...
CMU Arctic voices
...
Setting Festival defaults
By creating and editing the file ~/.festivalrc you can change Festival default settings, such as the voice path - where it will be played; the voice used or volume and stretch. The following file provides a few example.
;; are comments
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;;;; Basic voice/system configuration
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;;;;;;;; Voice path
;;Voice path: sound card; Debian-specific: Use aplay to play audio
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r $SR $FILE")
;; Voice path: mplayer -> jack
;;(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "mplayer -ao jack:port=system -really-quiet -noconsolecontrols -nojoystick -nolirc -nomouseinput -demuxer rawaudio -rawaudio channels=1:rate=$SR $FILE") ;; to SYSTEM OUT via JACK
;;;;;;; The default voice
(set! voice_default voice_cmu_us_ksp_arctic_clunits) ;; Indian MALE
;;(set! voice_default voice_cmu_us_bdl_arctic_clunits) ;; US MALE
;;(set! voice_default voice_cmu_us_slt_arctic_clunits) ;; US FEMALE
;;(set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_awb_arctic_clunits) ;;
;;(set! voice_default 'voice_us2) ;;
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;;;; Advanced voice configuration
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;;;; Slow the standard voices down
(Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 0.5)
;;;; Set volume.
(set! default_after_synth_hooks
(list (lambda (utt) (utt.wave.rescale utt 2.0 t))))
links
Arch Linux manual on Festival HOWTO: Make festival TTS use better voices (MBROLA / CMU / HTS)
HOWTO: Make festival TTS use better voices (MBROLA / CMU / HTS)
http://teknologisuara.blogspot.nl/2011/11/howto-make-festival-tts-use-better.html