Questions referring to text-to-speech software that enables the computer to process input in the form of text characters and provide the output as audible sentences.
Questions tagged [text-to-speech]
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How can I run a simple text to speech command?
In Windows I can do these steps:
1. Open Notepad
2. Copy and Paste
CreateObject("SAPI.SpVoice").Speak"Hello."
3. Save it as xyz.vbs
4. Run it/Open it
It will then speak "Hello". Is there something like this in Ubuntu?
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spd-say change voice doesn't apply language
When I am using
spd-say -l "en-US" -y Belinda "Hello sir, how can I help you?"
it works fine with the selected voice. However if I run the same command again it reverts to the default male1 voice. Then after a few seconds I can use the selected…
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speech-dispatcher stopped working, spd-say starts, but stops after a few words
I have a problem with speech-dispatcher. As stated: speech-dispatcher stopped working. spd-say starts, but stops after a few words.
To be more precise:
I had a longer text. (This https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/NEWS from CHANGES WITH…
LiveWireBT
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Replace my voice in video recording with a TTS generated speech
I want to make a screencast substituting my voice with an audio generated by a TTS engine. The problem is if I use a stt followed by a tts the generated audio will not be in sync with my voice and won't make any sense in the screencast. Is there a…
user1579004
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Is there a The “Speak Text” feature like in Okular for a document reader in Gnome?
I just noticed that there is this: The "Speak Text" feature in Okular is not working. How do I get it to work?
Do we have a solution for Gnome without installing the KDE platform through the repos, snap or flatpak?
LiveWireBT
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Is there a way to use text-to-speech without a third party program?
I like using my Macintosh to read things, but Ubuntu is really growing on me. I want to be able to have my computer read aloud to me without booting up my Mac.
Is there a way to do this without installing any third party programs?
If not, could you…
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How to get speech output of negative numbers using festival speech synthesis?
For example, the speech output of -5.6 is "five point six", not "negative five point six". The negative part is always missing.
How to get speech output of negative numbers using festival speech synthesis?
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Is there a way to use microsoft online voices (tts) in Ubuntu?
Microsoft Edge has that feature called "Read Aloud" that allows you to read web pages or ebooks with very realistic voices available online.
I checked the Linux version of the browser but that feature isn't available on it (yet).
I was wondering if…
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Is there a text-to-speech system for Ubuntu which can do 'character' voices?
Most people are looking for natural sounding TTS. I am looking for something that has personality for an animatronic creature. It could be robotic or gruff or babyish, but it should be amusing.
user1759557
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Pico2wave read a file
pico2wave
Wish to input a text file into pico2wave.
Something like this ...
pico2wave 'read a file'
My entire code
sudo apt update &&
dependencies=(calibre sox libttspico-utils)
for i in ${dependencies[@]}; do sudo apt install $i -y;…
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