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Month: May 2016

Re: KTTS - Does it work for anyone?

From: deloptes <deloptes@...>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 08:50:21 +0200
Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Sunday 22 May 2016 22:20:29 Felix Miata wrote:
> 
>> I filed a bug:
>> http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2657
>>
>> I can't get KTTSMgr to find any voices on two different installations
>> on Stretch or two different installations on openSUSE 42.1. If it
>> works for you, please tell me what you're running it on, and if you
>> can, what I might be overlooking WRT to setup to make it work.
> 
> Sort of curious as to just what KTTS and friends were, I found it was
> apparently installed by default here on wheezy, and it only took 5
> minutes worth of configuring to make it read a gcode file to me.  Using
> the festival text to speech talker. But very difficult to understand,
> another, possibly high pitched voice would have been better, but I
> generally sing 2 octaves down from middle C, and this voice was actually
> below me.  But it in effect, almost just worked.  This was running
> ksayit, its front end.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

I don't think its worth using it, unless one is impaired and really needs
some assistance. The monotone voice and errors were driving me crazy.

But I see over the  years now we have more in debian (jessie) than before. I
had to download and install from source most of it for my testing 10+y ago

@Felix I added some notes to the bug, please report back

apt-cache search voice
festvox-don - minimal British English male speaker for festival
festvox-en1 - mbrola-en1 voice support for festival
festvox-us1 - mbrola-us1 voice support for festival
festvox-us2 - mbrola-us2 voice support for festival
festvox-us3 - mbrola-us3 voice support for festival
festvox-rablpc16k - British English male speaker for festival, 16khz sample
rate
festvox-rablpc8k - British English male speaker for festival, 8khz sample
rate


festival-ca - Catalan support for Festival speech synthesis system
festival-czech - Czech support for Festival speech synthesis system
festvox-hi-nsk - Hindi male speaker for festival
festvox-italp16k - Italian female speaker for Festival
festvox-itapc16k - Italian male speaker for Festival
festvox-mr-nsk - Marathi male speaker for festival
festvox-te-nsk - Telugu (te) male speaker for festival
festlex-cmu - CMU dictionary for Festival
festlex-poslex - Part of speech lexicons and ngram from English
festvox-ca-ona-hts - Catalan female speaker for festival, 16kHz HTS
festvox-czech-ph - Czech male speaker for Festival
festvox-kallpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz sample
rate
festvox-kallpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz sample
rate
festvox-kdlpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz sample
rate
festvox-kdlpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz sample
rate
festvox-ru - Russian male speaker for Festival
festvox-suopuhe-lj - Finnish female speaker for Festival
festvox-suopuhe-mv - Finnish male speaker for festival


mbrola-af1 - Afrikaans male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-br1 - Brazilian Portuguese male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-br3 - Brazilian Portuguese male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-cr1 - Croatian male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-cz2 - Czech male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-de4 - German male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-de5 - German female voice for Mbrola
mbrola-de6 - German male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-de7 - German female voice for Mbrola
mbrola-ee1 - Estonian male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-en1 - British English male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-es1 - Spanish male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-es2 - Spanish male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-fr1 - French male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-fr4 - French female voice for Mbrola
mbrola-gr1 - Greek male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-gr2 - Greek male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-hu1 - Hungarian male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-ic1 - Icelandic male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-id1 - Indonesian male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-it3 - Italian male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-it4 - Italian female voice for Mbrola
mbrola-la1 - Latin male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-mx2 - Mexican Spanish male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-nl2 - Dutch male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-pl1 - Polish female voice for Mbrola
mbrola-pt1 - European Portuguese female voice for Mbrola
mbrola-ro1 - Romanian male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-sw1 - Swedish male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-sw2 - Swedish female voice for Mbrola
mbrola-tr1 - Turkish male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-tr2 - Turkish female voice for Mbrola
mbrola-us1 - American English female voice for Mbrola
mbrola-us2 - American English male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-us3 - American English male voice for Mbrola
mbrola-vz1 - Venezuelan Spanish male voice for Mbrola