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sudo apt-get install espeek
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sudo apt-get install festival
The CMU Arctic (http://festvox.org/cmu_arctic/) voices sound magnitudes better than the standard Festival voices. They use prerecorded utterances from Project Gutenberg. The voices can be downloaded from here. (http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cmu_arctic/packed/) Each voice is around 120 MB. For a description of each voice visit the CMU Arctic (http://festvox.org/cmu_arctic/) page. To hear them visit the voice demo page. (http://festvox.org/voicedemos.html)
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cd /usr/share/festival/voices/english/
sudo wget -c http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cmu_arctic/packed/cmu_us_clb_arctic-0.95-release.tar.bz2
sudo tar jxf cmu_us_clb_arctic-0.95-release.tar.bz2
sudo ln -s cmu_us_clb_arctic cmu_us_clb_arctic_clunits
sudo cp /usr/share/festival/festival.scm /usr/share/festival/festival.scm.bk
sudo su
echo "(set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_clb_arctic_clunits)" >> /usr/share/festival/festival.scm
exit
sudo echo "(set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_clb_arctic_clunits)" >> /usr/share/festival/festival.scm
rm /usr/share/festival/voices/english/cmu_us_clb_arctic-0.95-release.tar.bz2
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;;(set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_clb_arctic_clunits)
More Voices: not yet working exactally to procedure (imitate from above)
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mkdir morevoices
cd morevoices
wget http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/archives/2.0.1/festvox_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts-2.0.1.tar.bz2
wget http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/archives/2.0.1/festvox_nitech_us_bdl_arctic_hts-2.0.1.tar.bz2
wget http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/archives/2.0.1/festvox_nitech_us_clb_arctic_hts-2.0.1.tar.bz2
wget http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/archives/2.0.1/festvox_nitech_us_rms_arctic_hts-2.0.1.tar.bz2
wget http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/archives/2.0.1/festvox_nitech_us_slt_arctic_hts-2.0.1.tar.bz2
wget http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/archives/2.0.1/festvox_nitech_us_jmk_arctic_hts-2.0.1.tar.bz2
for t in `ls festvox_nitech_us_*` ; do tar xvf $t ; done
sudo mv lib/voices/us/nitech_us_* /usr/share/festival/voices/english/
sudo mv lib/hts.scm /usr/share/festival/hts.scm
cd ..
rm -R -v morevoices