Domotiga/VoiceText

VoiceText Support

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Also known as Text2Speech, DomotiGa currently supports 2 speech engines, the default 'espeak' festival command, standard installed on Ubuntu.

And the commercial Cepstral engine called 'swift'. You can find them [ http://www.cepstral.com/|here] To support the latter install your swift engine and voices like this: 

$ mkdir -p ~/install/cepstral
$ cd ~/install/ceptral

$ wget http://downloads.cepstral.com/cepstral/i386-linux/Cepstral_Linda_i386-linux_5.1.0.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf Cepstral_Linda_i386-linux_5.1.0.tar.gz
$ cd Cepstral_Linda_i386-linux_5.1.0
$ sudo ./install.sh

Install into what directory? [/opt/swift] Enter
/opt/swift does not exist.  Create it? ([n]/y) y


Swift will be installed in the following directories:

  Voices in /opt/swift/voices
  Shared libraries in /opt/swift/lib
  Binaries in /opt/swift/bin
  Configuration file in /opt/swift/etc
  Header files in /opt/swift/include
  Examples in /opt/swift/examples
  Sound effects filters in /opt/swift/sfx
  Documentation in /opt/swift/doc

Is this acceptable?  Enter 'yes' to continue: yes

Installing libraries...

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If you are installing Swift system-wide, you may need to add the following
line to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig as root:

    /opt/swift/lib

(Otherwise, you will need to add it to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment
variable in order to run programs linked against the Swift libraries.)
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Installing voice Linda...

Creating configuration...

Installing binaries...
Installing symbolic link to swift...
Installing man page...

Setting permissions...

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Testing the installed swift binary...
/opt/swift/bin/swift -o /dev/null 'hello world'

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****************** Installation Completed Successfully! *******************
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To hear a test:

$ /opt/swift/bin/swift 'hello world'

If you have licenses, register them with this command:

$ sudo swift --reg-voice

Repeat above steps for other Cepstral voices you have. I have bought voices Emily and Linda, they sound great!

Enable support via the VoiceText Setup menu, choose which engine and which voice(s) you want to use. Test them with the buttons on the System Debug page.

Support is added very recently so expect problems with it.

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