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Festival TTS for Ruby

jrobertson (James Robertson) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:55:23 GMT

This text-to-speech engine uses Ruby and festival. Listen to the output as an mp3 sample [twittergram.com]

Prerequisites:
sudo apt-get install festival lame
sudo gem install festivaltts4r



require "rubygems"

require "festivaltts4r"

				

"I'm talking".to_speech

Reference: Festival TTS for Ruby - Make your Ruby Strings talk! [rubyforge.org]

Using Espeak

jrobertson (James Robertson) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:29:36 GMT

Espeak is a Text-to-speech program which I have used on Ubuntu. A sample of the audio can be found from my twittergram [twittergram.com]. Note: I made a few spelling mistakes in the audio, listen and tell me if you can hear them.



espeak -f hello_jr -s 120

Speech recognition

korakot (Korakot Chaovavanich) — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 06:26:09 GMT

The code is too long. I'd rather just make a link.
It uses MS Speech SDK 5.1 via COM.

Text-to-speech

korakot (Korakot Chaovavanich) — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 06:16:48 GMT



>>> import win32com.client

>>> s = win32com.client.Dispatch("SAPI.SpVoice")

>>> s.Speak('Hello, how are you?')

You need MS Speech SDK installed. See recipe.