Re: running mbrola

[Hans Zoebelein <hzo goldfish cube net>]

Using 'freephone' and 'rawplay' you can build a script called
'speakme' which looks like:

[begin script]
#!/bin/sh

FREEPHONE_LIBS=/usr/lib/mbrola/tts-English/lib/lexicon
MBROLA_LANGBASE=/usr/lib/mbrola/en1/en1 

freephone -h $FREEPHONE_LIBS  | mbrola -v 2.0 $* -e $MBROLA_LANGBASE - -.raw | rawplay
[end script]

Now doing an
echo "hello world" |speakme 

should speak your "hello world" 


--Hans


On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 benny netspace net au wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> Today I thought I'd try my hand at installing Mbrola, as I have need
> of multi-lingual speech. I installed RPMs of the Mbrola package plus
> the en1 voice. The problem came to try out the test file
> mbrola.pho. It seemed to produce the .au file without errors, but I
> just get squealing and wild-winter-night type sounds when I try and
> send it to /dev/audio. I can usually cat .au files to /dev/audio and
> hear them correctly. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Ben
> 
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