Hi,
One can compile from source and then also the hts engine wich is mensioned
in the readme.
I think if there are packages, they are likely outdated.
I cannot remember if there are sample voices on the site, if not, contact
me when you have built it.
There are both python and C apis, so eventually writing something like
espeakup, but for speect, should be relatively easy.
one can add -dwith_tests or something to the cmake command and will then
get a binary synth_test that can generate a .wav file. Putting that in a
pipe using play from sox can
be used as a basic test binary and could be used with speech-dispatcher's
generic module.
Note with speect as it is, you might have to do your own text
normalization.
Kind regards, Willem
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015, Tony Baechler wrote:
On 10/22/2015 10:40 PM, Willem van der Walt wrote:
I grabbed the demo .wav and am not impressed.
Our own tts, speect, is better.
It is available at http://speect.sf.net
It is using hmm tts methods.
It is more natural sounding than gnu speech or espeak, and not IMHO suited
for screenreader use.
HMM is synthesized sound, modeled after human voices which is actual
recordings, IE. the computer is tought how speech should sound by giving it
examples of how a real person would read some given text.
I looked at the download site with interest. First, it would appear that
fully installed, it's bigger than Gnuspeech. Gnuspeech without a dictionary
weighs in at under 1 MB and with the data files at 3.8 MB. However, I
wasn't able to get the Ubuntu package to install on 14.04.3, even after
adding the PPA repository. Apparently packages are only available for 12.04
Precise. That's too bad as I am always willing to give other synthesizers a
chance. I'm always looking for high quality speech for reading text files,
ebooks, etc. If the packages get updated, please post here.
Also, to keep this on topic for the Speakup list, what about writing either
a module for Speech Dispatcher or a Speakup connector? If it's as good as
you claim it is, Orca users would probably also be interested, but there
would need to be a module for Speech Dispatcher.
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