[raspberry-vi] Re: Linux voices
- From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:42:06 +0000
Hello Steve,
Personally my preference is for espeak. It's very easy to get espeak
installed and make it say something.
But we don't currently have any screen-readers reliably running. I did
get yasr compiled and running but it is so unstable I can't recommend it
to anyone for use on the Pi.
The best bet is SpeakUp! and there are a couple of us working on getting
that running.
Back to espeak...it will run as a stand-alone tts application, or it is
usable by screen-readers via something called speech-dispatcher.
If you're using Raspbian, then these steps should result in some speech:
sudo apt-get install espeak
Answer 'y' when asked if you want to continue, then when it has finished:
espeak "Hello world"
and you should hear speech, along with some nasty pops if you're
listening to analog audio from the 3.5mm jack.
I have also used Festival:
sudo apt-get install festival
Then:
festival --tts filename
To read the contents of filename. The festival voice is ok but not as
good as espeak imho.
Mike
On 13/03/2013 15:27, Steve Crawford wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quick question from a linux novice. Which voices are people using (or hoping
> to use) with their Raspberry Pi screenreaders?
>
> Thx
>
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