Opensource/free Arabic text to speach solution built on top of eSpeak project.
مشروع جديد يهدف إلى إعداد الملفات الضرورية لعمل آلة النطق مفتوحة المصدر إسبيك، وجعلها تنطق بالعربية.
note: Short Arabic documentation can be found here for the time being.
| Authors: | Authors.rst |
|---|---|
| Version: | 0.1.## |
| License: | GPL (it includes files with their own licenses) |
| Mailinglist: | arabictools@googlegroups.com |
| Announcement: | on the developer blog |
| Accounts: | @Twitter @Facebook | @Sourceforge |
Test if espeak is installed on your system, you can download it from http://espeak.sf.net
Verify the path for espeak-data
under Fedora espeak-data path is /usr/share/espeak-data
Unzip the Arf-espeak
Copy the espeak-data files into your specified path ( e.g. /usr/share/espeak-data)
Test if espak use arabic voices
espeak --voices=ar
it sould give an output like this:
espeak --voices=ar
Pty Language Age/Gender VoiceName File Other Langs
1 ar M arabic-mbrola-1 mb/mb-ar1
2 ar M arabic-mbrola-2 mb/mb-ar2
5 ar M arabic ar
6- Test sound by using vocalized texts:
espeak 'السلام عليكم' -v ar
# TODO