speech systhesis voices with orca/espeak

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Debian 9

Edhoari Setiyoso

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On 01/24/2018 12:32 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> what distro?
>
>
> On 1/23/2018 5:44 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just install Voxin and it sounds great with Orca. You may want to 
>> give it a try.
>> They also provide installer to make things easier.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Edhoari Setiyoso
>>
>> email : edhoari.s at gmail.com
>> skype : edhoari.s
>>
>> On 01/18/2018 12:53 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>> You can try Festival or Flite, as they both have some fairly good 
>>> voices. But Festival needs to be started in server mode in order for 
>>> it to work with Orca, and I'm not entirely sure that 
>>> speech-dispatcher knows how to find the better quality Flite voices. 
>>> The best way to start Festival in server mode would be to write a 
>>> systemd service that starts, monitors and stops it. It should be 
>>> placed in /etc/systemd/system and should be executable. Run the 
>>> following commands to make the right file.
>>> sudo touch /etc/systemd/system/festival.service
>>> sudo chmod 664 /etc/systemd/system/festival.service
>>> sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/festival.service
>>> and then paste the following content into the file.
>>>
>>> [Unit]
>>> Description=Festival speech synthesis server
>>> [Service]
>>> ExecStart=/usr/bin/festival_server
>>> Type=simple
>>>
>>> Now run
>>> sudo systemctl daemon-reload
>>> sudo systemctl enable --now festival
>>> Now you need voices. Look at something like
>>> apt-cache search festival
>>> There should be a fairly sizeable number of voices. I believe the 
>>> Arctic HTS voices are probably the best. Install any voices you can 
>>> find
>>> sudo apt-get install <voicename>
>>> where voicename is the name to the left of your search results. The 
>>> documentation I'm reading says you will need to reboot after 
>>> installing voices, but you should only need to restart the Festival 
>>> service
>>> sudo systemctl restart festival
>>> and then toggle Orca off and on by pressing alt+super+s twice.
>>>
>>> I found the documentation for this at
>>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/system_administrators_guide/enable_festival 
>>>
>>> but it's designed for Red Hat systems. I have adapted the 
>>> instructions so that they should work on the latest Debian Stretch 
>>> or Testing/Unstable systems. I don't have a Debian system to test 
>>> the modified instructions, so your mileage may vary.
>>>
>>> Flite will be easier to get working, but last time I looked at it, I 
>>> could only see the horrible default voice. Try
>>> sudo apt-get install flite
>>> You may need to uncomment its module in either 
>>> /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd-conf or 
>>> ~/.config/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, or maybe just run
>>> spd-config
>>> from a terminal and follow the prompts, which should allow you to 
>>> select either Festival or Flite. Toggle Orca and then select the 
>>> synthesizer and voice you want from the voice tab in your Orca 
>>> preferences. If all goes well, you should be able to hear a 
>>> different voice from the default Espeak.
>>> Imetumwa kutoka mti wangu mrefu
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