Hello, svox-pico is a nice small TTS engine with a pleasing female voice.
A chap called Kyle has created a command-line interface to pico which provides a means of reading text and generating any of the sound file formats supported by sox. To install on Debian, and probably any of the downstream distros: sudo apt-get install sox sudo apt-get install libttspico-data libttspico-dev libttspico-utils libttspico0 git clone https://github.com/the-kyle/picospeaker.git cd picospeaker sudo install -m 0755 picospeaker /usr/local/bin Excuse any bad line wrapping in the above and be conscious of it. The svox-pico voice will be familiar to anybody who uses an Android smart-phone with the screen-reader enabled. svox-pico doesn't have the impressive language support of eSpeak, but the en-GB voice is nice. Mike -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK "Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla" (It's a long way by the rules, but short and efficient with examples) Interested in accessibility on the Raspberry Pi? Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ >From where you can join our mailing list for visually-impaired Pi hackers _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
