TTS:mbrola

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Install

Package

1. Go to the ArchLinux AUR home page
2. Search for the package mbrola
3. Download tarball
4. Decompress the package
5. Edit the PKGBUILD for 64 bits architecture
   

$ nano PKGBUILD

pkgname=mbrola
pkgver=3.0.1h
pkgrel=5
pkgdesc="A phoneme-to-audio converter used by many TTS (Text-to-speech) programs."
arch=('x86_64')
url="http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html"
license=('custom:Mbrola')
source=(http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/${pkgname}/bin/amd64linux/mbrola_AMD_Linux.zip
        LICENSE)
md5sums=('eab0b1f22025464286620cec1017c236'
         '3ec25133449591ade620fa694e1e9546')
package() {
  install -Dm755 mbrola $pkgdir/usr/bin/$pkgname
  install -Dm644 LICENSE ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE
}

• Build and install the packages

$ makepkg -i
$ yaourt -S espeak alsa-utils mbrola-voices-fr1 mbrola-voices-fr4

Run

Bash scripts

• French male voice

espeak -s 160 -v mb-fr1 -p 20 "$*" | mbrola -e /usr/share/mbrola/fr1/fr1 - - | aplay -r16000 -fS16 -c1 -q

• French female voice

espeak -s 160 -v mb-fr4 -p 30 "$*" | mbrola -e /usr/share/mbrola/fr4/fr4 - - | aplay -r22050 -fS16 -c1 -q