Questions tagged [text-to-speech]
Speech synthesis, i.e. generation of human speech from written text. Process opposite to /speech-recognition. This tag is for general questions regarding TTS. For particular pieces of software use tags like /festival /espeak.
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Can't connect SPD-SAY and Festival
I'm using Puppy Linux:
Linux PuppyPC 4.9.163-lxpup-32-pae #1 SMP Thu Mar 14 15:41:19 GMT 2019 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
I'm trying to use spd-say tool with festival. The problem is I can use festival ...
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What would you recommend for Voice Dictation in Linux? [closed]
Ok, so I'm looking for a simple live-dictation tool that will run natively in linux, not a web-based app.
For context, I've looked around on Google, Checked out other SE posts asking the same thing in ...
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Missing /dev/dsp
I have installed Cepstral Swift (test to speech), and when I run the command which should output audio I get the error
oss_audio: failed to open audio device /dev/dsp
I ensure the also OSS was ...
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How to install coqui-ai TTS on Manjaro and use it with a simple command?
Since coqui-ai TTS isn't in the AUR I have to install it manually.
When I install it directly with
pip install TTS
it installs but at the end of the installation I get the error
ERROR: pip's ...
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Batch writing text to speech audio files from .csv file
I am new to using ZSH on Mac and am looking for help to write a simple shell script to batch create WAV audio files from a .csv file
I have created a .csv file with data in 3 columns, A B C. Wanting ...
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I need a good, easy to use open source TTS
I'm trying to find a relatively easy to use non-robotic sounding TTS since im not really familiar with python or TTS engine's in general so it's hard for me to just yoink one of those neural network ...
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Disable "speak text" in Okular
I have personally no need for this feature and have never activated it except by error.
Sometimes I click that instead of copy and that unpleasing voice starts without any obvious way to make it stop....
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speech recording and translate
I have a problem with converting from "wav" to "flac".
Command:
arecord -D plughw:0,0 -f cd -t wav -d 0 -q -r 16000 | flac - -s -f --best --sample-rate 16000 -o daveconroy.flac
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What are some current transcription or dictation software packages for Linux?
The Mozilla deepspeech project is interesting, but perhaps not sufficiently sophisticated. My results, at least, were underwhelming.
Online transcription or dictation services are fine, but an ...
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Using mbrola voices with festival from the command-line
I installed apt install festival #Version: 1:2.5.0-5
and apt install mbrola-de{1..7} #Version: 3.3+dfsg-4
How can I make use of this German mbrola voices in festival?
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How to download sapi5 voices in Pop OS?
I made a python desktop assistant in windows which took user input and gave out output in the form of speech with the help of pyttsx3 , I used one of the male voices which comes in by default in ...
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How to get sudo insults only through festival?
I just found out sudo insults, and I would think it would be fun to get those slanders out through festival, but only the insults - how to do that on Linux?
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speech-dispatcher voice configuration problems with festival
I finally got Festival working with the US HTS voices: cmu_us_awb_cg, cmu_us_jmk_cg, cmu_us_slt_cg, cmu_us_bdl_cg, cmu_us_clb_cg, cmu_us_rms_cg.
I manually configured festival.scm to use bdl voice:
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How can I read out a text file?
I want to convert text in file a.txt to sound & play it using APLAY. any suggestions please?
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Speech Dispatcher failing to start on Arch Linux
I use pulseaudio on my system. I have installed the tts applications espeak and flite. Both of which work perfectly when called from the commandline, but fail to work when called via spd-say. I need ...
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