Questions tagged [text-to-speech]
Speech synthesis, i.e. generation of human speech from written text. Process opposite to /speech-recognition. This tag is for general questions regarding TTS. For particular pieces of software use tags like /festival /espeak.
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Can't connect SPD-SAY and Festival
I'm using Puppy Linux:
Linux PuppyPC 4.9.163-lxpup-32-pae #1 SMP Thu Mar 14 15:41:19 GMT 2019 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
I'm trying to use spd-say tool with festival. The problem is I can use festival ...
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What would you recommend for Voice Dictation in Linux? [closed]
Ok, so I'm looking for a simple live-dictation tool that will run natively in linux, not a web-based app.
For context, I've looked around on Google, Checked out other SE posts asking the same thing in ...
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Missing /dev/dsp
I have installed Cepstral Swift (test to speech), and when I run the command which should output audio I get the error
oss_audio: failed to open audio device /dev/dsp
I ensure the also OSS was ...
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How to install coqui-ai TTS on Manjaro and use it with a simple command?
Since coqui-ai TTS isn't in the AUR I have to install it manually.
When I install it directly with
pip install TTS
it installs but at the end of the installation I get the error
ERROR: pip's ...
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Batch writing text to speech audio files from .csv file
I am new to using ZSH on Mac and am looking for help to write a simple shell script to batch create WAV audio files from a .csv file
I have created a .csv file with data in 3 columns, A B C. Wanting ...
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I need a good, easy to use open source TTS
I'm trying to find a relatively easy to use non-robotic sounding TTS since im not really familiar with python or TTS engine's in general so it's hard for me to just yoink one of those neural network ...
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Disable "speak text" in Okular
I have personally no need for this feature and have never activated it except by error.
Sometimes I click that instead of copy and that unpleasing voice starts without any obvious way to make it stop....
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speech recording and translate
I have a problem with converting from "wav" to "flac".
Command:
arecord -D plughw:0,0 -f cd -t wav -d 0 -q -r 16000 | flac - -s -f --best --sample-rate 16000 -o daveconroy.flac
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What are some current transcription or dictation software packages for Linux?
The Mozilla deepspeech project is interesting, but perhaps not sufficiently sophisticated. My results, at least, were underwhelming.
Online transcription or dictation services are fine, but an ...
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Using mbrola voices with festival from the command-line
I installed apt install festival #Version: 1:2.5.0-5
and apt install mbrola-de{1..7} #Version: 3.3+dfsg-4
How can I make use of this German mbrola voices in festival?
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How to download sapi5 voices in Pop OS?
I made a python desktop assistant in windows which took user input and gave out output in the form of speech with the help of pyttsx3 , I used one of the male voices which comes in by default in ...
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How to get sudo insults only through festival?
I just found out sudo insults, and I would think it would be fun to get those slanders out through festival, but only the insults - how to do that on Linux?
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speech-dispatcher voice configuration problems with festival
I finally got Festival working with the US HTS voices: cmu_us_awb_cg, cmu_us_jmk_cg, cmu_us_slt_cg, cmu_us_bdl_cg, cmu_us_clb_cg, cmu_us_rms_cg.
I manually configured festival.scm to use bdl voice:
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How can I read out a text file?
I want to convert text in file a.txt to sound & play it using APLAY. any suggestions please?
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Speech Dispatcher failing to start on Arch Linux
I use pulseaudio on my system. I have installed the tts applications espeak and flite. Both of which work perfectly when called from the commandline, but fail to work when called via spd-say. I need ...
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How may I have Ubuntu read an ASCII file out loud to me?
Is there an easy way to have Ubuntu Linux to read a text file to me?
For example, let's say I have a file, /tmp/test_type; and in that file I have, Hello, world. What is the easiest way to have ...
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say command not working on command line only Debian install
uname -a prints the output Linux debian 4.9.0-3-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u5 (2017-09-19) i686 GNU/Linux
I have only the core system utilities installed with no graphical interface.
I did ...
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How to set options of commands called by browser?
Presently when Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) is set as at text property of SpeechSynthesisUtterance instance at Chromium or Firefox web browsers the SSML is not parsed at *nix as reflected ...
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How to use soundex search in file searching?
I have a directory that contains numerous files. Moreover, I forget exact file name. So, when I want to find a file I don't find it.
If there is any tool that use soundex algorithm for searching ...
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Speech Synthesis browser APIs do not work in Chromium nor Firefox
Speech Synthesis API, tested using demo here, does not work for me on Manjaro Linux KDE neither in Firefox nor Chromium. Friend tested the same demo on Linux Mint xfce and it works for him in Firefox.
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Sound feedback while in terminal/text editor?
When I am typing in the terminal, often I am typing in commands or code without necessarily looking at the screen. Probably this would annoy many people, but for me I would like audible feedback from ...
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Raspberry Pi Python Talkey (TTS) + Cron
I have written this little Python script to listen to the BBC RSS Top Stories feed on my Raspberry Pi
So first of all because I have problems with the 3.5 mm Jack (no sound), I went into
sudo raspi-...
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Access highlighted text from script?
Is it possible to access highlighted text via a shell script?
I want to make a keyboard shortcut to use 'espeak' to read highlighted text.
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Using spd-say in a bash script function
I'm sure this is fairly elementary, but I can't figure it out.
My script:
#!/bin/bash
sez ()
{
echo $1
spd-say "$1"
}
sez "does this work"
sez "this does work"
What I'm trying to make happen is ...
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how to get espeak to continuously speak stdout piped from netcat
I have a Raspberry pi 3 that I want to use as a sort of PA system, using espeak to announce stuff piped from netcat, which is getting input from a remote server. On the pi, I initiate the listener ...
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How to resolve Festival tts command returning `lexicon english_poslex not defined` error?
I have installed festival tts.
Now when I try running
echo "Helllloooo! Is anyone home?" | festival --tts
I get the output
lexicon english_poslex not defined
How do I resolve this error?
I'm ...
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Text-to-speech in a script
Currently, I'm using wine and Windows TTSApp.exe application for
text-to-speech.
It is GUI application and works well with SAPI-5 voices. I will choose
a text file with a few clicks and convert it to ...
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audio play not starting at beginning
When I run a audio file with like mpg321 or aplay or sox or even in TTS's (Text to speak) audio only outputs correctly from the second time I reproduce the audio file...
per example in Text to speech:...
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How do I redirect output from a command line app (howie AIML interpreter) to another command line app (espeak)?
I'd like to interact with an AIML interpreter that runs on the command line (Howie) using standard input and have the output played using espeak.
I've tried:
./runme.py | espeak --stdin
No ...
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Is there a way to get German text to speech in festival?
Searching for info about German text to speech, I came across a "Dialog-based Human-Technology Interaction by Coordinated Analysis and Generation of Multiple Modalities", as well as this page, which I ...
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How to make festival evaulate its own scheme expressions from the command line, so as to change voices as needed?
I can't seem to find any documentation on this.
This forum post shows someone trying to change the voice used by festival, outside of the festival interpreter, using a command-line flag.
festival --\...
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New Mail Arrived notification Kmail + Jovie Speech customizing
When a new message arrives, Kmail has ability to speak! Which is great but not enough: I don't want to listen to a standard text but have a proper functionality:
When a new message arrives, Jovie ...
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