On 01/05/2008 11:57 AM, Shane D wrote: > Hello Debian Users, > > My name is Shane. I am new to the list. I am trying to install Debian > on an older laptop of mine so that I can use it for an Asterisk box. I > run a couple of radioshows, and need to take calls. > > Anyway, I am questing a way to install Debian with Speech. I do not > have a hardware synthesizer. I want a way of > (A) Being able to install debian with speech > (B) Having speech to use in the shell. > > I don't want to use a graphical interface once it is installed. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance. > > Shane >
Hi Shane, While you await a knowledgeable reply, here's a list of debian packages in stable (Etch) to examine. I'm only familiar with flite, which is trivial to install and use on an old box. I use it for proof-reading sometimes, but it will read back text piped to it very nicely. Regards, Ralph ~$ apt-cache search speech |sort acroread-plugin-speech - This plugin enable the Read Out Loud feature in acroread apertium - Shallow-transfer machine translation engine brltty-flite - Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal cl-speech-dispatcher - Common Lisp interface to Speech Dispatcher cowsay - A configurable talking cow eflite - Festival-Lite based emacspeak speech server ekg - console Gadu Gadu client for UNIX systems emacspeak - speech output interface to Emacs emacspeak-ss - Emacspeak speech server for several synthesizers epos - Text-to-speech system espeak - A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer espeak-data - A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer: speech data files festival-czech - Czech support for Festival speech synthesis system festival-dev - development kit for the Festival speech synthesis system festival-freebsoft-utils - Festival extensions and utilities festival - general multi-lingual speech synthesis system festival-te - This package provides the modules required to synthesize speech festlex-ifd - Italian support for Festival festlex-poslex - Part of speech lexicons and ngram from English festvox-ellpc11k - Castilian Spanish 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-rablpc16k - British English male speaker for festival, 16khz sample rate festvox-rablpc8k - British English male speaker for festival, 8khz sample rate festvox-suopuhe-common - Common files for Festival Finnish speakers festvox-suopuhe-lj - Finnish female speaker for Festival festvox-suopuhe-mv - Finnish male speaker for festival festvox-te-nsk - This is Telugu male speaker for Festival flite1-dev - A small run-time speech synthesis engine - static libraries flite - A small run-time speech synthesis engine gpsdrive - Car navigation system gstreamer0.8-festival - Festival speech synthesis plugin for GStreamer gstreamer0.8-gsm - GSM plugin for GStreamer gstreamer0.8-speex - Speex plugin for GStreamer ihu - Qt VoIP softphone with an own, encrypted protocol jbofihe - A parser for the lojban language kmouth - a type-and-say KDE frontend for speech synthesizers ksayit - a frontend for the KDE Text-to-Speech system kttsd - a Text-to-Speech system for KDE kttsd-contrib-plugins - the KDE Text-to-Speech system libespeak1 - A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer: shared library libespeak-dev - A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer: development files libestools1.2-dev - Edinburgh Speech Tools Library - developer's libraries and docs libestools1.2 - Edinburgh Speech Tools Library libflite1 - a small run-time speech synthesis engine - shared libraries libgnome-speech3-dev - GNOME text-to-speech library (development headers) libgnome-speech3 - GNOME text-to-speech library libgsm1-dev - Development libraries for a GSM speech compressor libgsm1 - Shared libraries for GSM speech compressor libgsm-tools - User binaries for a GSM speech compressor libmythes-dev - simple thesaurus library (development files) libspeechd2 - Speech Dispatcher: Shared libraries libspeechd-dev - Speech Dispatcher: Development libraries and header files libspeex1 - The Speex Speech Codec libspeex-dev - The Speex Speech Codec libsphinx2-dev - speech recognition library - development kit libsphinx2g0 - speech recognition library libtime-human-perl - convert localtime() format to "speaking clock" time libtorch3c2 - State of the art machine learning library - runtime library libtorch3-dev - State of the art machine learning library - development files posixtestsuite - POSIX conformance test suite (dummy package) praat - program for speech analysis and synthesis python-speechd - Python interface to Speech Dispatcher recite - English text speech synthesizer screader - Screen reader using software or hardware speech synthesizer sound-icons - Sounds for speech enabled applications speechd-el-doc-cs - speechd-el documentation in Czech speechd-el - Emacs speech client using Speech Dispatcher speech-dispatcher - Common interface to speech synthesizers speech-dispatcher-doc-cs - Speech Dispatcher documentation in Czech speech-dispatcher-festival - Festival support for Speech Dispatcher speech-tools-doc - Documentation for the Edinburgh Speech Tools speech-tools - Edinburgh Speech Tools - user binaries speex - The Speex Speech Codec sphinx2-bin - speech recognition utilities sphinx2-hmm-6k - speech recognition library - default acoustic model tiemu - Texas Instruments calculators emulator transcriber - Transcribe speech data using an integrated editor wavesurfer - Sound Manipulation Program wsola - allows one to speed/slow audio without altering its pitch xmms-speex - Speex Speech Codec - XMMS input plugin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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