text to speech in Linux

[worldlearner0411]

I would complain that its impossible to understand clearly....not really applicable, but I cannot even imagine how difficult it would be to write a tts program.

[surfstev]

I just got Readplease, a full featured Windows XP text to speech program, to work in Linux Mint 11 after installing the program WINE. Next I downloaded Readplease and ran the file through WINE. It installed a Readplease icon on my desktop. I dragged and dropped it onto the task bar and it launches Readplease with a single click. After experimenting I discovered if you paste and copy your data into LiberOffice Writer first that Readplease reads it perfectly.

[purplemutantas]

I just added a video response with nicer voices for festival. In the description of the video is a link to an Ubuntu tutorial on how to install the nicer voices.

[purplemutantas]

There are MUCH better voices for festival. There is some info on the Ubuntu forums on how to install the better voices. My favorite is one of the female voices developed in Japan. I will see what I need to do to record the voice. Then I will post the video as a reply. I may see about doing a demo of a few of the voices I have installed.

[mindw99]

The quality is stell poor.

For real applications Natural Voices from AT&T is the best. And now there is a (development) version for linux available.

[lanswipe]

how do i get that female portal voice for festival?

[supergenius1994]

anyone know where you can get a c++ text to speech library?

[schmidtbag]

espeak sounds much better. unless festival uses espeak (which it really does not seem like), this was not as understandable, and espeak is for linux and free. festival is still nice for something free, though

[realthor21]

c'mon, this is closer to PalSite's Avatars than espeak. I tried espeak and it really sucked.

[schmidtbag]

espeak sucks if you don't configure it. as far as i'm aware, you have to pay for palsite. i agree, it is pretty good and is better than espeak, but espeak is better than this

[Ferkiwi]

wohh! very nice

What script did you use? could you post a link to the script somewhere?

[Ciphex0]

no link most distro's have it in the package manager

apt-get install festival (deb distros)

yum install festival (red hat distros)

pkg_add -r festival (BSD Distros)

[GeekingForJesus]

Sounds like it sucks. Sorry.

[iwan0t0smith]

it also has support for welsh and spanish!

[tuxsbro]

i like espeak

[F5overlord]

its glados...

[mcstikkel]

LOL THE CAKE IS A LIE!!!

[dunkelfalke]

this sounds rather like glados from the portal game.

[AznDonutBoi]

lol

these things always sound like they have their lung taken out

like they've been smoking too much

[KeySerialsMan]

LOL! :D