Questions tagged [freetts]

an open source speech synthesis system, an implementation of Sun's Java Speech API (Wikipedia)

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FreeTTS - java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.speech.EngineCentral

I have a problem, and I know this might similiar to the ones that are online, but I have followed every instruction I have found online and I am still getting this problem. Basically I am making a GUI with a Virtual Keyboard, and whatever the user…
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Java Program - Works in Eclipse but Not in JAR - FreeTTS

I have been creating a Java program and it runs perfectly in Eclipse with no errors at all. When I compile it into a .jar and run it I get this error: java.lang.NullPointerException at javaVoice.Speech.say(Speech.java:12) at…
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Having Problems Getting FreeTTS and JSAPI Working

First off I'm on Ubuntu linux if that matters. I have a simple project idea based off of FreeTTS and the JSAPI (Java Speech API) I've downloaded and unpacked FreeTTS and run their build script. Then tried compiling my code linking several jar's…
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How to use Mbrola voices (more than us1, us2 and us3) in Java with FreeTTS?

I want to know if it's possible to use some extra voice from here with FreeTTS, rather than only us1, us2 and us3. Particularly a non-english voice. import com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice; import com.sun.speech.freetts.VoiceManager; public class…
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Female voice output in voce speech synthesizer

I am using voce speech synthesizer for my text to speech application in Java. http://voce.sourceforge.net/ It has default male voice. How can I get a female voice?
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Working with FreeTTS and JSAPI

I am working on a project where I needed Text to speech conversion. I Downloaded this FreeTTS 1.2 and to get familiar with the working I started making a simple spell bee program where the words will be spoken by the application and you have to…
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How to Change voice of TTS for Java

I am using FreeTTS to speak out some text in my java program. I want to embed MBROLA Voices in it. I followed the instructions, but I got stuck here: Enable FreeTTS Support for MBROLA To enable FreeTTS support for MBROLA, merely copy…
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ClassNotFoundException in FreeTTS Java program

I am new to FreeTTS and this is my first program.The following program simply reads out a string passed. I am using Linux Mint 32-bit if that matters.But I extracted jsapi.jar on my windows machine a day back.I believe it doesn't matter. import…
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Error in com.sun.speech.freetts.*

this is my code import com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice; import com.sun.speech.freetts.VoiceManager; public class FreeTTS { private static final String VOICENAME_kevin = "kevin"; private String text; // string to speech public FreeTTS(String…
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Using FreeTTS in a web application

I'm building a web application using HTML and JSP. One of the functionality which provided is converting some texts to speech. In netbeans, I created a Java project, this project contains a Java applet offers the speech task, this applet uses…
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Not able to find *.app in mbrola for FreeTTS in Java

I am using speech synthesis in java. I want to change the accent of the speech. So I found that it has to be done through embedding MBorla voices in it. I am unable to figure out on how to embed it. I am using the following tutorial:…
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Voce Libraries (CMUSphinx + FreeTTS) keeps giving "Not Valid Resource" error on grammar file

The speech recognition example (recognitionTest.java) given with Voce doesn't compile and gives a "Not a Valid Resource" error for the grammar file. (digits.gram) I have tried using both relative and absolute paths in the init function, but the same…
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Voice recognition in java using freets

Is there any way to write a program of voice recognition in Java? I understood that there are many technologies, and I found freetts which seems to be a comfortable one, though I succeeded to write a program of text-to-speech, but didn't find any…
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What the performance of Festival TTS vs FreeTTS on windows platforms?

9 hours ago I had the wonderful idea to build up from scratch Festival TTS on Windows. In the meanwhile, and in less than 30 minutes, I build up the same source code on Linux, but only because tons of development tools were already installed :D Also…
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Implementing my TTS project using own language

I have a problem with my android project. i want to implement my text-to-speech software using my own language "Bangla/Bengali". i need to know how can i do that task? if there is a very effective solution,please let me know about that.
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