[Hpr] Alternative TTS with svox-pico (Mike Ray)

2014-12-02 Thread Fifty OneFifty
Mike Ray, I have svox-pico install, can you provide a quick example of how convert a text file to audio from the Linux command line? 5150 ___ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org

Re: [Hpr] Alternative TTS with svox-pico (Mike Ray)

2014-12-02 Thread Mike Ray
You also need sox and picospeaker as my original email said. Here's an example: picospeaker -l en-GB -r 20 -o example.flac file-of-text or: picospeaker -l en-GB -r 20 -o string.flac this is a string Audio file types can be any supported by sox. Type an incorrect language value to see valid

[Hpr] Alternative TTS with svox-pico

2014-12-01 Thread Mike Ray
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