Text to speech program for Wary

[circularL7]

Sorry if this is the wrong forum.

Is anyone aware of a text to speech program that Wary will run? I'd like one that converts the file to MP3.

[ally]

hey circular

some puppy 4 builds had 'flite' which works well - worth having a google.....

[Geoffrey]

I made a couple of GUi frontends for flite here that will make mp3's, one is gtkdialog3 the other gtkdialog4 http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 837#513837

[muggins]

Or, you could try playing around with espeak. I just uploaded new version here.

To do an mp3 you would do something like:

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espeak -f whateverfile.txt -w whateverfile.wav | wav2mp3

N.B.1 You would need to play around with the voices to get one satisfying to your ears.

N.B.2 I needed to modify /usr/bin/wav2mp3, to get output to current directory, from:

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OUT_DIR="./wav2mp3"

to:

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OUT_DIR=`pwd`

[circularL7]

Y'all are the best! Thank you.

[ariel]

you might find useful geread a front-end for espeak here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=61414

[circularL7]

Thank you, Ariel. I've downloaded them and will try them out. I didn't have any luck getting flite to work, but I have been playing with espeak.

Have any of you tried Free TTS?

[nic007]

2nd Speech Center works very well with Wine. I have been using it for a long time (it isn't free though if that sort of thing worries you). TTSReader is free but buggy when last I ran it in Wine. May perform better with a newer version of Wine. TextaloudMP3 also works.