Make Raspberry to talk with Festival [tutorial] NEW VOICE

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THE NEW VOICE IS THE LAST MESSAGE

How to make Raspberry Pi2 Raspbian to talk with Festival.

Install festival.

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sudo apt-get -y install festival

To tell our Raspi to use 3,5 Jack audio output.

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amixer cset numid=3 1

Plug in speakers or headphones and type: 'echo "Hi dude, how can I help you?" | festival --tts' This will make festival to say everything between “” thingies.

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echo "Hi dude, how can I help you?" | festival --tts

You can pipe other things to festival if you end your lines with | festival -–tts example your computer hostname:

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hostname | festival --tts

To read the contents of a text document in /home/pi for example 'file' just type.

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festival --tts "file"

Tell the date:

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date "+%H:%M %P %A %d %B %Y"| festival --tts

Read some selected text with a shortcut.

We need an application to aloud us pipe the text from Internet to festival 'xsel'

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sudo apt-get install xsel

Make a bash script to do the job with cat

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cat << eof > talk.sh
#!/bin/bash
xsel | festival --tts --pipe
eof

Permissions to execute for the file talk.sh

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chmod +x talk.sh

Now we need to manage the shortcuts. In Raspian this is done by editing:

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~/.config/openbox/lxde-pi-rc.xml

From command line type:

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nano ~/.config/openbox/lxde-pi-rc.xml

Under the <keyboard> tag add:

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<keybind key= "Name of key">
    <action name= "Execute">
        <execute>Command name</execute>
    </action>
</keybind>

Then you can complete the fields like this:

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<!--Keybindings for Festival -->
<keybind key= "C-Menu">
    <action name= "Execute">
        <execute>/home/pi/talk.sh</execute>
    </action>
</keybind>

That's all, from now you can read text with festival just selecting some text and puss the combo Control+Menu, you may need to reboot.

If you are wondering what happens when you push a button use the command 'xev' in terminal when you press a key, the shell will tell his name then you can use it to make the shortcuts.

Of course you can run festival with 'festival' command an read things.

Run festival.

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festival 

Say something.

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(Saytext "Hello world")

Read a file.

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(tts "file" nil)

Get out of festival.

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(quit)

Sorry for my English I still learning your great language! have fun and talk with your raspy
I take this opportunity to ask you to share your progress with festival, let's make this topic a great post.

I'm working on handling the raspberry with voice commands, and answer me via julius. I'm sure many people would like the idea, let's work together.

see you!!

source: My place (with pics)

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A few days playing with festival and I bring my progress.

Install some voices us1_mbrola famale voice included!

sudo apt-get install festival festival-freebsoft-utils festlex-oald

sudo apt-get install festvox-kallpc16k festvox-kdlpc16k festvox-rablpc16k

mkdir /tmp/mbrola

cd /tmp/mbrola

wget http://www.tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mb ... mbrola.tgz

wget http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola ... 980512.zip

wget http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola ... 980910.zip

tar -xzvf mbrola.tgz

sudo mv mbrola /usr/bin

rm mbrola.tgz

unzip us1-980512.zip

unzip en1-980910.zip

sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/festival/voices/english/us1_mbrola/

sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/festival/voices/english/en1_mbrola/

sudo mv us1 /usr/share/festival/voices/english/us1_mbrola/

sudo mv en1 /usr/share/festival/voices/english/en1_mbrola/

wget http://www.festvox.org/packed/festival/ ... us1.tar.gz

tar -xzvf festvox_us1.tar.gz

sudo mv festival/lib/voices/english/us1_mbrola/* /usr/share/festival/voices/english/us1_mbrola/

wget http://www.festvox.org/packed/festival/ ... en1.tar.gz

tar -xzvf festvox_en1.tar.gz

sudo mv festival/lib/voices/english/en1_mbrola/* /usr/share/festival/voices/english/en1_mbrola/

rm festvox_en1.tar.gz

rm -rf festival

amixer cset numid=3 1

To set a dafault voice type:

sudo nano /etc/festival.scm

add this line:

(set! voice_default 'voice_us1_mbrola)

enjoy

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I update this post today because I find a great female voice. I have more so if you like I can share

Make a directory to do the job:

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mkdir myvoice  
cd myvoice  

Download this great and clear voice:

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wget http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cmu_arctic/packed/cmu_us_slt_arctic-0.95-release.tar.bz2  

Extract it:

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tar xf cmu_us_slt_arctic-0.95-release.tar.bz2 

Now move it to festival. Beware, we need to change the name here add _clunits suffix ok:

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sudo mv cmu_us_slt_arctic /usr/share/festival/voices/english/cmu_us_slt_arctic_clunits  

Make it the default voice : edit festival config file add this to a new line (/etc/festival*.scm)

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(set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_slt_arctic_clunits)  

Now start festival:

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festival

Test it:

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(SayText "Hello I am Alice, and i'm nice. This is a short introduction test.")

Your Welcome guys for this great girl

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after i set this...

(set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_slt_arctic_clunits)

I see this error.

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-=-=-=-=-=- EST Error -=-=-=-=-=-
{FND} Feature Token_Method not defined

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Check the folder voice name sould be cmu_us_slt_arctic_clunits if doesn't work there are 2 possibility one the name of the folder or the incompatibility with other voices

Good luck!