The Festival Speech Synthesis System
Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems.
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Add voices in Festival tts
So I am trying to use festival tts on my raspberry pi for a smart home project. However, when I try to use a british english voice it says not a british english voice installed.
echo "hello world" | festival --tts --language "british_english"
Not a…
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How to use Text-to-speech Festival java API?
I am trying to convert text to speech in java. I used FreeTTS but it doesnot provide recording feature or changing male voice to female voice using just maven.
I came across festival.exe. It is giving me all the features I require. But the issue is…
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Problem building Festival (Text to Speech) on Ubuntu
I set up a Ubuntu VM today just to build Festival on Ubuntu (I never ran it before) Then I did the following setups
On the Terminal window I wrote following to install GNU C++ Compiler
sudo apt-get install build-essential
To test the g++ I wrote a…
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Festival unit selection voice Missing diphone: # hash
Some background: In trying to build a unit selection voice I followed the steps here: https://github.com/CSTR-Edinburgh/CSTR-Edinburgh.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2016-8-21-Multisyn_unit_selection.md and used a voice definition from here:…
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core dump in _int_free ... at malloc.c:3902 ... all executables
I am running ubuntu (16.10) (guest) in virtualbox (5.1.18) on windows 10 (host)
I have downloaded festival tts code from respective sites and trying to build it on this setup.
Code get built without any hitch whatsoever.
However at run time, all the…
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Windows CLI Integration in Adobe AIR 2.0 using NativeProcess for executable which opens own shell and blocks
How can I use the NativeProcess API in Adobe AIR 2.0 to do CLI in Windows like passing the following commands to cmd.exe
cd C:\FestivalTTS
echo "Hello world" | festival --tts
The problem is unlike grep or any unlike similar command, Festival opens…
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Suggestions for running Festival TTS from Flex4 Adobe AIR application
I'm trying to run Festival text to speech from a AIR 2 app.
Here's a sample code for starting notepad
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pass user input to festival
So I have a Raspberry Pi unit that is set up to check a gmail account and if new mail appears, it reads it out loud via festival.
I interact with Festival via a crude 'echo "' + str(message) + '" | festival --tts' call where message is the content…
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Festival TTS viseme file generation in bash / python
Am currently working on a project that uses Festival TTS engine on the RPi.
Have used it plenty before. I have also used pyfestival to do basic stuff. I am currently trying to generate the viseme file for a piece of text. This works perfectly if…
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Festival C/C++ API compiling an example, linking libraries error
I am having problems with the festival C++ API (Windows XP).
After I make both festival and speech_tools succesfully (Cygwin), I have a file, called festival_example.cc, which contains:
#include
#include
int main(int argc,…
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How to use Festival Text To Speech C/C++ API
I want to use Festival TTS with my C++ programme.
So i have downloaded all files form http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/downloads/festival/2.0.95/
then i start reading manual(http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_28.html) for C++ API but…
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How to link festival TTS libraries in a C++ programme using g++
i am using Festival c++ Api but in the manual provided at
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_28.html#SEC132
saying to link festival/src/lib/libFestival.a etc.
so please tell me hw to link them with my c++ programme
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Getting started with Festival (on iphone)
I'd like to use Festival in an iPhone app. Is this possible, considering the way Festival generates and then plays back audio files? Can I pass Festival an audio file directly from itself to play back? or is there a different way to read things?
Is…
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/dev/dsp missing in debian and cannot hear festival utterance
Tried to make an utterance in festival and it seems /dev/dsp/ is missing in the debian. How to add this?
festival> (SayText "Hello")
Linux: can't open /dev/dsp
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Controlling Festival Output
I am working on improving Festival on Emacs. I need better control of Festival when it reads a sentence. Basically, I need two things:
Show what word is being read.
Change the speed (and maybe pitch) of what is being read.
Ideally, there would…
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