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

[Nurendra Choudhary]

So, we will be using festival in sugar labs for text to speech feature from
now on.

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Flavio Danesse <fdanesse at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hola gente, hoy me hice un rato para probar festival en la xo.
> Todo funciona perfecto, los paquetes necesarios están disponibles para
> instalarlos en la xo.
>
> Cambiar la funcionalidad de espeak por festival en aplicaciones sugar es
> muy sencillo, pero antes es necesario que incluyan en la imagen de sugar
> los siguientes paquetes:
>
> gstreamer-tools
> festival-speechtools-libs-1.2.96-21.fc18.i686
> festival-lib-1.96-21.fc18.i686
> festvox-slt-artic-hts-0.20061229-21.fc18.noarc
> festival-1.96-21.fc18.i686
>
>
> 2014-10-07 13:42 GMT-02:00 Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>:
>
>> Good, this is a start.
>>
>> We need two things to substitute espeak:
>> * We need svox packaged in fedora or rpmfusion
>> apparently is not completly free, then can't be included in fedora.
>> I wonder why is packaged on Debian.
>> Is already in the wish list for rpmusion [1]
>> If you are working on Ubuntu, probably is out of your confort zone :),
>> but many users of Sugar use the XO computers, and the distribution
>> installed is Fedora.
>> Maybe you can contact rpmfusion guys to get help moving this issue
>>
>> * We need mechanisms to get the same functionality already available on
>> espeak,
>> off the top of my head:
>>  * get the list of languages availables
>>  * get the best language for the selected locale.
>>  * be able to pause/continue/stop a text played.
>>
>> Please subscribe to sugar-devel [2] and continue the conversation there.
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>> [1] http://rpmfusion.org/Wishlist
>> [2] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Nurendra Choudhary <
>> nurendrachoudhary31 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I implemented a code in python using svoxpico you mentioned earlier for
>>> text to speech.
>>> The code can be found here.
>>> https://github.com/Akirato/sugarlabs-speak-module
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Most of our users don't have connnectivity available full time
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Nurendra Choudhary <
>>>> nurendrachoudhary31 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It is possible on a linux system but network connectivity is required.
>>>>> I thought that sugar labs had network connectivity. I will try something
>>>>> else.
>>>>>
>>>>> with network, the command is $curl -A "Mozilla" "
>>>>> http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=hello+world" >
>>>>> audio.mp3
>>>>> I will try to find the source code.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It  is possible use it on a linux system?
>>>>>> Can be used if you are disconnected?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gonzalo
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Nurendra Choudhary <
>>>>>> nurendrachoudhary31 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> Have you thought about using the Google Text to Speech API. Its
>>>>>>> easily integrable and provides good sounds and also different accents.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Gonzalo Odiard
>>>>>>
>>>>>> SugarLabs - Software for children learning
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Gonzalo Odiard
>>>>
>>>> SugarLabs - Software for children learning
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gonzalo Odiard
>>
>> SugarLabs - Software for children learning
>>
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