Reading words in your computer and changing to female voice, Linux festival Text2wave saving wav files

On a brand new Linux PC, e.g. Ubuntu 14.04 AMD64

To hear voice

sudo Install festival-y

Then try to hear some thing from your PC

Echo " I am your computer. " | Festival-TTS # orecho"I am your computer. " | Festival--tts--pipe

You'll hear something out.

Now replace the voice files, a better one.

Tutorial from Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eJTDpAeBSk

To replace voice

Commands including:

Install Festival sudo su  /usr/share/festival/voices/english/wget -C http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cmu_arctic/packed/cmu_ us_clb_arctic-0.95-release.tar.bz2tar jxf cmu_us_clb_arctic-0.95-release. Tar . bz2 Ln -S cmu_us_clb_arctic cmu_us_clb_arctic_clunits
echo "(set! Voice_default ' voice_cmu_us_clb_arctic_clunits) ' >>/ETC/FESTIVAL.SCM

Then go to command line

$~ festivalfestival"HelloWorld")

You'll hear something different, a female voice would come out.

To save wave files

Echo "  " >/tmp/</tmp/one.txt >/tmp//tmp/voice.wav

Your Voice file has been saved.

Happy hacking!

Reading words in your computer and changing to female voice, Linux festival Text2wave saving wav files