SimpleTTS

A simple Python class that uses Festival's text2wave command to perform text-to-speech (TTS) conversion.

Prerequisites

• Only works on Linux systems. Developed and tested using Ubuntu 16.04.
• Requires festival installed on host Linux system.

Installation

1. Install festival:

   sudo apt-get install festival
   

2. Download and install voice pack (optional):

   wget -c http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cmu_arctic/packed/cmu_us_clb_arctic-0.95-release.tar.bz2
   tar xjf cmu_us_clb_arctic-0.95-release.tar.bz2 -C /tmp/
   sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/festival/voices/us/
   sudo cp -r /tmp/cmu_us_clb_arctic-0.95-release /usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_clb_arctic_clunits
   

3. Make the voice pack the new default by adding/editing the .festivalrc file in your home directory and add the following line:

   (set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_clb_arctic_clunits)
   

4. Clone this repository and install:

   git clone https://github.com/ewenchou/simple-tts.git
   cd simple-tts
   sudo python setup.py install
   

Temporary Directory and Files

SimpleTTS will save text and WAV files to its temporary directory (default: /tmp/simple-tts). The WAV files can be large in size and take up disk space.

Use the clean() method to delete them after you're done using the SimpleTTS object instance.