speech systhesis voices with orca/espeak

[Linux for blind general discussion]

yes Debian 9 my bad ...

2018-01-23 23:15 UTC−05:00, Linux for blind general discussion
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> 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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