[Sugar-devel] Regarding the Sugar Labs Text to Speech feature.

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Gracias Flavio.
Hace mucho que no pruebo Festival, voy a probarlo.

Gonzalo

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Flavio Danesse <fdanesse at gmail.com> wrote:

> Creo que para hacer esto lo mejor sería utilizar gstreamer directamente a
> través de su plugin para "festival".
> Festival es software libre y ya tiene un montón de voces listas para
> utilizar e incluso se pueden utilizar voces de otros proyectos similares.
> Si quieres probar, tienes que instalar festival y el plugin para gstreamer
> que se encuentra en gstreamer-tools.
> Luego ejecutas en una terminal: festival --server
> y en otra lo pruebas con: echo 'Hello World!' | gst-launch-0.10 fdsrc fd=0
> ! festival ! wavparse ! audioconvert ! alsasink
>
> La web de Festival es: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
> La de festvox es: http://www.festvox.org/
>
> PD:
> En diversos sitios web hay abundante material sobre como instalar un
> montón de voces compatibles, e incluso como crear nuevas.
>
> 2014-10-03 16:29 GMT-03:00 Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>:
>
>> Hi Nurendra,
>> Certainly there are many thinks we can do connected with text to speech.
>> We use the "espeak" [1] utility, included in the linux distributions,
>> and a gstreamer plugin to use it from python.
>> Text to speech is used in many activitieas, and also in Sugar itself,
>> you can select any text and press a icon in the frame or press a shortcut
>> and the text is played. You can see the code here [2]
>> We call that "Global text to speech" [3]
>> Right now, I want move part of that code to the toolkit (the library
>> shared by Sugar,
>> and the activities, to avoid code duplication) [4]
>>
>> Where we can get help?
>> * Better voices: espeak is very robotic.There are other free voices with
>> better quality?
>> Can be used in devices with modest capabilities like the xo?
>>
>> * I found a project on debian repository to compile svox-pico,
>> used in Android. The voices are very nice, but I don't know if is
>> possible distribute it.
>> You can compile it in Fedora doing:
>>
>> git clone -b upstream+patches git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/svox.git
>> svox-pico
>> git checkout -f origin/debian-sid
>> cd pico
>> ./autogen.sh
>> ./configure
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> And can create a wav file wih the text doing:
>>
>> pico2wave   --wave=/tmp/test.wav "hello world"
>>
>> To be able to use this, we would need package all this are rpms,
>> and create a gstreamer pluggin to use it.
>> Not so easy, but a nice project ;)
>>
>> * Other project could be improve our text to speech feature to be able
>> to highlight word by word while are played, like in "sing along" videos
>> [5]
>> At least in part was implemented on Read activity when reading text files,
>> but need implementation in PDF and epub files.
>> I tried implementing in epub files but was very slow and lost sync
>> between
>> the audio and the view.
>>
>> There more things to do if you are interested.
>> We found text to speech is a powerful tool. Kids enjoy simple activities
>> as Speak (or no so simple if look at the robot part), and we even use
>> TTS in our word processor as a way to allow kids to "debug writing"
>> as Claudia Urrea say.
>>
>> If you are interested, let me know and I will try tto help.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>>
>> [1] http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
>> [2]
>> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/src/jarabe/model/speech.py
>> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Global_Text_To_Speech
>> [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Text_To_Speech_In_The_Toolkit
>> [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1QeShToq-E
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Nurendra Choudhary <
>> nurendrachoudhary31 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I am a Computational Linguistics student at IIIT hyderabad and can code
>>> in python, c,c++ and also work with various frameworks.
>>> I would like to work on the Text to Speech feature. Can you help me
>>> start?
>>>
>>> - Nurendra Choudhary
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gonzalo Odiard
>>
>> SugarLabs - Software for children learning
>>
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>


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Gonzalo Odiard

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