This repository has been moved to gitlab.com/paul-nechifor/romsun.

Old readme:

Romsun

This is a Romanian text to phoneme converter.

Back in 2009 I couldn't find any free text-to-speech library for Romanian, but I did find that the MBROLA speech synthesizer supported reading Romanian phonemes so I wrote this to transform Romanian text to the .pho files needed by MBROLA.

It's not that good, but it's better than nothing. I used it for awesome things like reading the instant messages I get from people (a Pidgin module), counting sheep in Romanian so I can go to sleep faster, getting audio notifications of when a website gets updated... I mean, really, Nobel prize material.

Install

Get mbrola and sox (console WAV player). Possibly others too.

sudo apt-get install mbrola sox unzip

Get the ro1 voice:

wget 'http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/dba/ro1/ro1-980317.zip'
unzip -p ro1-*.zip ro1/ro1 > ro1
rm ro1-*.zip

Usage

Once you have those you can use the spune Bash script.

./spune 'Eu zic că se aude destul de bine.'

For the actual program see the help:

./romsun.py -h

License

MIT