Text To Speech On Linux With Festival
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesizer (a text-to-speech program). It will read documents saved on your system, or read highlighted text you have selected with your mouse or cursor. Also, it can convert the document into an mp3 that you can then play with your audio player.
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TTS is great for proofreading. You're almost always going to miss something, TTS can highlight that in a rather novel manner.
Thanks for helping us discover all these apps Derek. I really appreciate your work.
Thanks, Aurora! :D
@@DistroTube Does it read pdf?
@@MamtaNarang Okular has the option to use flite tts engine to read PDF files.
Being a linguist, I love tts. I remember a website that used a tts function where you could have it read out news articles offered on that website. Back in the days, it would put a prosodic break whenever clickable hyperlinks occurred, so the tts sounded like: »The replacement of 1.5 million notebook batteries by Dell. And by Apple!« I used to celebrate this, made me laugh so hard! 😀
Oh, you actually cite Kaczyński 1995. Excellent read, sir!
These tutorials are the best. Complete, thorough, clearly explained, and done step by step so that when I follow along I can see we will have the same problem together, or if it is just me then I can stop right there to find a fix, knowing exactly where I am.
6:03 Uncle Ted entered the chat
And people claim DT and Luke Smith are different people.
For the dyslexic, text to speech (at least for complicated and/or verbose material ) is undeniably beneficial.
Thank you, Derek. I tried this many years ago but never found any decent use for it.
It is certainly interesting. I have actually been looking into this subject in the past, but didn't really find anything of note. However, as of yet, this is simply not good enough, by which I mean that would not be able to listen to it for even a short periode of time, without me getting an anusrim or something.
Thanks! Using Foliate + Festival to read books aloud.
It's surprisingly hard to figure out what Festival voices are female, so I'm just using the one in the video, instead of downloading and trying them all.
Nice Unabomber easter egg ;)
Nifty little program. Thanks for sharing!
TTS are very handy (I've used Acapela TTS back in winXP).
French, Japanese , Chinese, Russian those are some of the languages that would help a lot to have.
Yeah, TTS is one main reason why I sometimes go to MacOS. I do translation work so it can be valuable.
Thank you! Got it working in seconds
I have been looking for a good tts for a long time and this has somehow never come across my desk. Thank you.
google IBM TTS and try their demo... they even use a markup language
that tells the synthesizer when to pause, lower or raise tones etc...
best TTS in the world at the moment I'd say...
still true.
There was TTS program at least fifteen years ago (I can't remember the name of the program), which produced almost real sounding human voice. Unfortunately it wasn't open source though.
Same commands as you, but I got a guy reading :). Another great little app for the terminal. Thanks DT!
would be nice if theres comparison with other similar program
Unfortunately, so long as the voice is robotic, the novelty wears off really fast. Some day they'll get it right.
There are MUCH better voices out there. Not free though.
@@tonn333 True. I've heard a few. Free is at a cost of it's own...
google IBM TTS and try their demo... they even use a markup language that tells the synthesizer when to pause, lower or raise tones etc... best TTS in the world at the moment I'd say...
@@IncomingLegend Yup. Just tried it. I'm impressed. Thanks for passing that on.
Excellent!
I've always used a similar program; espeak. I use these programs to listen to books as I program. :)
Does it run in linux?
@Learn Linux He's asking about the program called espeak not the program in the video
Thank you for making this video
Thanks, JWC!
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I have dyslexia
I like to share simple way to send the selected texts to TTS automatically. I am using flite, and should works similar as festival.
$ while xsel -nf; do xsel | flite; done &
Now, try to highlight /select text using mouse, and it should be automatically send to TTS. Also, we can use the xsel to get input from stdout of other process/program.
$ date | xsel
$ dmesg | tail | xsel
And all the text output will be send to the TTS automatically..
If we using flite, we can speed-up the speech.. Here I set/alias flite to use RMS voice and speed the speech rate 2x.
flite -voice rms --setf duration_stretch=0.5'
Enjoy.
Thank you.
Combine this with the PulseEffects app and make,
Pitch ON "Cents: -14" "Semitones: -5" "Octaves: 0" "Crispness: 0"
Reverberation ON "Diffusion: 0.50", "Room Size: Large" "Decay Time: 1.5",
to make your PC sound like a giant robot or an alien from Star Trek. :D
TTS tip: Have your emails read out by highlighting text then right clicking and selecting 'Speak text' in Kmail.
Wish I knew this program when I was trying to do a box in Hack the Box, where I had to do a sqlinjection with speech syntesis. You can't imagine how hard it was for me...
+1 like for Arch
I saw Arch Linux install "with speech" - what does that mean? Is it the above? Or is it something better, like the voices you get in Microsoft Edge? (I don't like Edge, but honestly their T2S is great sounding).
Some features sorely needed in T2S applications is the ability to skip over strange symbols and don't actually ready out stuff like "" or weird long numbers or other dumb stuff. Tho OTOH I bet you'd need some AI for that... Sadly.
Is there a speech to text application? Been using Dragon on Windows and am not happy with it. Would like a F/OSS application of the same kind that might be better.
Don't mind me, just tuning in for the same question. =)
google IBM TTS and try their demo... they even use a markup language
that tells the synthesizer when to pause, lower or raise tones etc...
best TTS in the world at the moment I'd say...
google IBM TTS and try their demo... they even use a markup language
that tells the synthesizer when to pause, lower or raise tones etc...
best TTS in the world at the moment I'd say...
Any way we can have a how to for Flite inside of Okular? I've tried setting it up a few times and can only ever get the defaul voice inside of it which is pretty unbearable.
Can Festival create a file that you speak specific instructions to?
I assume this only works in a GUI environment?
there used to be a program called "ebook-speaker", that would open ebooks and read them. Does this only do plain text?
industrial revolution btfoooo
this is The Fu turr spea king.. XD now if only i can make my terminal react to my voice commands without using siri, thatd be great :D
It seems still have issues with spanish language, I tried in my Linux(Ubuntu 20.04) machine this command :# festival --language spanish --tts document.txt
text2wave & lame gives me error don't know how to fix
this is the error :-
Warning: unsupported audio format
Can't init infile '-'
Has anyone figured out how to get the Spanish voice?
EDIT: I found the files, but the program doesn't correctly read characters like ñ
Playing paragraph.mp3 was an amusing plot twist.
Try GTTS. The voice is better.
how can i convert a .srt file (subtitles) into a timed wav file using festival? . If anyone knows please tell me here
1:17 there are none
is there a GUI for it? starting and stopping in the middle? a command line only program - not very useful for this application.
Greetings Dr Falken would u like to play a game of chess
is it possible to make it as a microphone output?
Have you tried SubscribeStar? Is it not useful for your content?
i wonder if i could transfert this to a diff. distro ? and what would be the command to do it !!! (im new to linux so i only use mint for now thanks )
How can I add voices in the festival anybody plzz help
Is there a verison for windows i cant find any info about that anywhere
what a hassle ! How can you people like this? the read aloud on firefox is easier with a press of a button.
Спасибо.
Hack it to sing the free software song 😁
Unfortunately I'm pretty sure the text-to-speech for Japanese is either nonexistent or horrible.
Wrong, try IBM Watson demo.
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Get well soon, Alex! ;)
espeak is still better
esd playback not supported, :(