Speech Synthesis
Counterpart to
Also
<<<TTS>>>
Text to speech
Festival
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Interactive mode commands are given in Scheme
Can receive text from stdin with festival --tts
Flite
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About
Flite is designed as an alternative text to speech synthesis engine to Festival for voices built using the FestVox suite of voice building tools.
Pros and cons over Festival
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Pros
Flite is small, fast and more portable (albeit less customizable).
Cons
you can’t use voices from festival with flite directly. Instead you will need to convert them manually which requires time and programming knowledge. See Converting FestVox Voices (archive).
Articles
Speech Synthesis on Linux
blogpostUrl
https://darkshadow.io/2020/08/01/speech-synthesis-on-linux.html
On HN
Shows how to setup and use the Festival TTS
Basic usage
How to install Nitech HTS voices
By default fails on [ Festival 2.5.0 ] on [ Debian 10 ]
Shows basic usage of Flite, pros and cons over Festival
Warning: HTS_fopen: Cannot open hts/htsvoice.
aplay: main:645: bad speed value 0
Festival 2.4 Regression bug from 2016 proposes to compile it from source