RPi Text to Speech (Speech Synthesis)

[StevenP]

I put a short guide to using Text to Speech on the Pi at the Wiki, intended for the beginner.The link is:
http://elinux.org/RPi_Text_to_Speech_(Speech_Synthesis)

I wanted speech on my internet radio, and found the existing info on the web confusing and there was no comparison of the different method of getting the Pi to speak - hopefully I've brought it all together there. It is not exhaustive but is enough to get you quickly started and experimenting

All comments/suggestions are welcome! I would be interested to know for what you have used speech on your Pi - StevenP.

[LetHopeItsSnowing]

Thanks, very useful

[djfountain]

Hey.
I appreciate your article.
I added to it here, and enabled chopping the string into 100 char sections to avoid the google limit.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 25#p311925

Feel free to add the script to that page.
Dan

[Bronto]

Hi StevenP,

I'm working on a script that a) reads in data from a web source text file and then b) calls the ./speech.sh to run it.

Here's the call I am using:

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for line in content.split('\r\n'):
    subprocess.call('echo ' + line, shell=True)

The sentences that it is "echo" are:
./speech.sh this is a test
./speech.sh this is another test

My thinking is that it would "call" these and actually speak them, however it isnt doing that.

Here's a screenshot:

So as you can see the text being called begins with ./speech.sh however it doesnt do the text to speech to my speaker.

If I were to simply run
./speech.sh test 123
in the command prompt, it would play the voice.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?

[StevenP]

Hi,
I haven't used Python myself, but is the problem 'echo'? I don't think you need it. It is basically a print command, and you don't want to print, you want to pass the ./speech.sh etc. to the shell directly to get the shell to execute it.
So just remove the echo and see if it does what you want.
Hopefully it's that simple!

[Bronto]

Hi,
I haven't used Python myself, but is the problem 'echo'? I don't think you need it. It is basically a print command, and you don't want to print, you want to pass the ./speech.sh etc. to the shell directly to get the shell to execute it.
So just remove the echo and see if it does what you want.
Hopefully it's that simple!

Ha! Brilliant, it's working! Thank you StevenP

[StevenP]

Hi Dan,
thanks for that - nice guide - I just put a link to your site from my guide in the Wiki. Maybe later I will put your speech webpage as a sub page from my guide in the WIki if that's OK? (in case your site ever moves/disappears)
Cheers,
Steven

Hey.
I appreciate your article.
I added to it here, and enabled chopping the string into 100 char sections to avoid the google limit.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 25#p311925

Feel free to add the script to that page.
Dan

[Bronto]

Guys how would I set up a cron to run every minute "python talky.py"

I have been struggling to get the cron to work given I have tried crontab crontab.txt but it doesnt run that file.

Thanks!