Voice components for OpenRTM (part of OpenHRI softwares)

OpenHRIVoice requires following libraries:

Julius and Julius-runkit

http://julius.sourceforge.jp/

Julius-voxforge

http://www.voxforge.org/

Festival

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

OpenJTalk

http://open-jtalk.sourceforge.net/

MARY

http://mary.dfki.de/

lxml

http://codespeak.net/lxml/

BeautifulSoup

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

If you are using ubuntu, required libraries will be installed by entering following commands:

$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:openhri/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install julius julius-voxforge julius-runkit festival open-jtalk python-lxml python-beautifulsoup

There are several methods of installation available:

1. Install ubuntu package (recommended):

1. Register OpenHRI private package archive:

$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:openhri/ppa

2. Install OpenHRIVoice package:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install openhrivoice

2. Clone the source from the repository and install:

1. Clone from the repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/yosuke/openhrivoice.git openhrivoice

2. Run setup.py:

$ cd openhrivoice
$ sudo python setup.py install

JuliusRTC

Julius (English and Japanese) speech recognition component.

FestivalRTC

English speech synthesis component.

OpenJTalkRTC

Japanese speech synthesis component.

MARYRTC

English and German speech sysnthesis component.

XSLTRTC

XML transformation component.

CombineResultsRTC

Combine results from speech recognizers component.

see https://github.com/yosuke/OpenHRIVoice/tree/master/doc for description of each components.

validatesrgs

Validate format of SRGS grammar file.

srgstopls

Generate pronounciation dictionary from SRGS grammar.

plstosinglewordgrammar

Generate SRGS grammar from pronounciation dictionary.

bundlexinclude

Bundle multiple XML file defined as xinclude.

srgstojulius

Generate Julius grammar from SRGS grammar.

juliustographviz

Draw graph from Julius grammar.

Examples:

• Validate format of the SRGS grammar.

  $ validatesrgs sample.grxml

• Generate PLS lexicon from the SRGS grammar.

  $ srgstopls sample.grxml > sample-lex.xml

• Generate single words SRGS grammar from the PLS lexicon.

  $ plstosinglewordgrammar sample-lex.xml > sample.grxml

• Draw graph of the SRGS grammar.

  $ srgstojulius sample.grxml | juliustographviz | dot -Txlib

openhrivoice-1.0

• First version.