RPi Text to Speech (Speech Synthesis) - Revision history

Cmagnollay at 17:59, 13 May 2013

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Google script

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   nolirc=yes
 == Festival Text to Speech ==

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-Dan Fountain improved on the above to speak any length of text (Google limits you to 100 bytes normally). His webpage describes this at http://danfountain.com/2013/03/raspberry-pi-text-to-speech/
+Dan Fountain improved on the above script to speak any length of text (Google limits you to 100 bytes normally). His excellent easy-to-read webpage describes this at http://danfountain.com/2013/03/raspberry-pi-text-to-speech/
 == Recommendations ==

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 Test it using:
   ./speech.sh Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this.
 == Recommendations ==

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	I hope this guide has given you some ideas of how you can make use of speech output in your own project. As to which speech package to recommend, Festival works well enough, Espeak is clearer and so easier to understand and the Google engine gives super quality but is useless if you internet connection goes down. Maybe implement a speech function which first does a ping to Google before deciding whether to use Google or Espeak as its output engine?		I hope this guide has given you some ideas of how you can make use of speech output in your own project. As to which speech package to recommend, Festival works well enough, Espeak is clearer and so easier to understand and the Google engine gives super quality but is useless if you internet connection goes down. Maybe implement a speech function which first does a ping to Google before deciding whether to use Google or Espeak as its output engine?

−	All comments/suggestions welcome! Let me know for what you have used speech on ~~you~~ Pi - StevenP on the official Raspberry Pi Forum.	+	All comments/suggestions welcome! Let me know for what you have used speech on your Pi - StevenP on the official Raspberry Pi Forum.

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	I hope this guide has given you some ideas of how you can make use of speech output in your own project. As to which speech package to recommend, Festival works well enough, Espeak is clearer and so easier to understand and the Google engine gives super quality but is useless if you internet connection goes down. Maybe implement a speech function which first does a ping to Google before deciding whether to use Google or Espeak as its output engine?		I hope this guide has given you some ideas of how you can make use of speech output in your own project. As to which speech package to recommend, Festival works well enough, Espeak is clearer and so easier to understand and the Google engine gives super quality but is useless if you internet connection goes down. Maybe implement a speech function which first does a ping to Google before deciding whether to use Google or Espeak as its output engine?
−	All comments/suggestions welcome! Let me know for what you have used speech on you Pi~~! (~~StevenP on the official Raspberry Pi Forum)	+
		+	All comments/suggestions welcome! Let me know for what you have used speech on you Pi - StevenP on the official Raspberry Pi Forum.

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	I hope this guide has given you some ideas of how you can make use of speech output in your own project. As to which speech package to recommend, Festival works well enough, Espeak is clearer and so easier to understand and the Google engine gives super quality but is useless if you internet connection goes down. Maybe implement a speech function which first does a ping to Google before deciding whether to use Google or Espeak as its output engine?		I hope this guide has given you some ideas of how you can make use of speech output in your own project. As to which speech package to recommend, Festival works well enough, Espeak is clearer and so easier to understand and the Google engine gives super quality but is useless if you internet connection goes down. Maybe implement a speech function which first does a ping to Google before deciding whether to use Google or Espeak as its output engine?
		+	All comments/suggestions welcome! Let me know for what you have used speech on you Pi! (StevenP on the official Raspberry Pi Forum)

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   say() { local IFS=+;/usr/bin/mplayer -ao alsa -really-quiet -noconsolecontrols "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$*"; }
   say $*
-Alternatively download speech.sh here: [[File:speech.sh]]
+Alternatively save from here: [[File:speech.sh]]
 Add execute permissions to your script with:

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 Add these lines to the file and save it (in nano editor use CTRL-O writeOut)
-  #!/bin/bash
+ #!/bin/bash
-  say() {
+ say() { local IFS=+;/usr/bin/mplayer -ao alsa -really-quiet -noconsolecontrols "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$*"; }
-  local IFS=+;/usr/bin/mplayer -ao alsa -really-quiet -noconsolecontrols "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$*"; }
+ say $*
-  say $*
 Add execute permissions to your script with: