freetts

What the performance of Festival TTS vs FreeTTS on windows platforms?

9 hours ago I had the wonderful idea to build up from scratch Festival TTS on Windows. In the meanwhile, and in less than 30 minutes, I build up the same source code on Linux, but only because tons of development tools were already installed :D Also this morning I downloaded FreeTTS. I started a simple testing project in less of 10 min...

JavaFX Threading issue - GUI freezing while method call ran.

Hi everyone, I hoped someone might be able to help as I'm a little stumped. I have a javafx class which runs a user interface, which includes a button to read some text out loud. When you press it, it invokes a Java object which uses the FreeTTS java speech synth to read out loud a String, which all works fine. The problem is, when the...

SOS: AudioFormat when writing to file in FreeTTS

Very annoying problem. I have developed a freeTTS application of the freetts class that write captured audio to file however I am having some very annoying problems. When setting the audio player to singlefileaudio player I try to also set the audioformat with my own default values for sampleRate, sampleSizeInBits, channels, signed and b...

Having Problems Getting FreeTTS and JSAPI Working

First off I'm on Ubuntu linux if that matters. I have a simple project idea based off of FreeTTS and the JSAPI (Java Speech API) I've downloaded and unpacked FreeTTS and run their build script. Then tried compiling my code linking several jar's required in the lib directory into the class path like this: javac -cp /home/travis/Desktop...

Outputting Java Speech sound as .wav file

Hi there, I have been looking for a way to save the output of speech synthesis as a .wav file. I have downloaded FreeTTS and CloudGarden, but FreeTTS has problems with setting up MBROLA voices on windows machines, and the CloudGarden examples contain depreceated methods which produce errors even if the previous versions of the jsapi are...

FreeTTS hanging in ColdFusion 8 / Java

I'm looking into setting up a text-to-speech interpreter to make our CAPTCHA challenges ADA compliant. We're a ColdFusion shop, and Ray Camden's already done the proof of concept for this last year. I've been using his blog post here - http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/5/29/Generating-Speech-with-ColdFusion-and-Java - as a res...

Problem in using the freetts for java in linux

hi, i am not able to run the demo of the freetts library in my system. I have posted this on the forum of freetts but haven't got any reply yet. I am trying to run the HelloWorld demo, When i am running the following command, ant -find demo.xml , i am getting the following output: Searching for demo.xml ... Buildfile: /home/pranay/...

FreeTTS and Festival connection

If we develop a voice under Festival , how can that be used with FreeTTS? ...