Questions tagged [speech-dispatcher]

I use pulseaudio on my system. I have installed the tts applications espeak and flite. Both of which work perfectly when called from the commandline, but fail to work when called via spd-say. I need them to work via spd-say, because I want to…

Presently when Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) is set as at text property of SpeechSynthesisUtterance instance at Chromium or Firefox web browsers the SSML is not parsed at *nix as reflected at audio output of speechSynthesis.speak()…

I installed apt install festival #Version: 1:2.5.0-5 and apt install mbrola-de{1..7} #Version: 3.3+dfsg-4 How can I make use of this German mbrola voices in festival?

I finally got Festival working with the US HTS voices: cmu_us_awb_cg, cmu_us_jmk_cg, cmu_us_slt_cg, cmu_us_bdl_cg, cmu_us_clb_cg, cmu_us_rms_cg. I manually configured festival.scm to use bdl voice: (set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_bdl_cg) It's…