Ubuntu :: Equivalent To Mac OS X's Speech ?
Nov 14, 2010
I'm trying to migrate to Ubuntu from Mac OS X. I have set up a dual boot on my MacBook and I am currently working to get everything I need for my computing-life up and running in Ubuntu.
I have found almost everything, expect a speech synthesis similar to the one native to Mac OS X's.
I use the OS X speech synthesis to have text I have written read back to be, I'm not blind; just really good a missing small words. What I don't want is to have all the menus and bottoms read out, only text I have selected.
I have tried something with 'festival' and some GUI overlay (think that is what it is called) but it read absolutely everything out loud (and sounds like Amiga's speech engine, i.e. a quite low quality).
In my Mac OS X I have a really nice set up (with a voice called Alex) where I can start speech of selected text with "cmd + ; " and stop it with " cmd+' " (two shortcuts not used by the system).
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May 24, 2011
I want to make an application that will be using some text to speech and speech to text packages using Python in OpenSUSE 11.2.
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Jul 11, 2011
I want a tool / library / package in C/C++/Python for basically Text to Speech - Speech to Text in Linux.I've tried pyttsx in python , but it runs only in windows as expected, in Linux (openSUSE 11.2 , the script just hangs up )festival in C. - in Ubuntu - Could not configured it successfully.
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Nov 5, 2010
Are there any Speech recognization (Speech to text) software to use with Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx),So that I can dictate text in to a word processing program with them?
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Aug 10, 2010
Is there any way to get a text to speech engine on ubuntu like microsoft mike and mary? I tried espeak and gespeaker, but their selection of voices weren't too good.
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Dec 30, 2010
is there any speech recognition software out there i can install and use easily?
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Feb 13, 2010
It tells me (as in speaks to me) to go looking in the logs but they are all blank.
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Apr 13, 2011
i need text to speech converter for my project like espeak and festival other than these two any softwares avilable
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May 18, 2011
I've got a bunch of hand-written notes which I would like to put into Kabikaboo (great app by the way) - but it is a real pain reading stuff then typing it up. I'd like a speech-to-text app, so I can just read my notes out loud and the computer will turn them into text files.Looking through Synaptic, all I can find is Julius; and that does not seem to be an easy-to-use app at all. So many parameters to set, an impenetratable (to me) manpage; and although I am a CLI user quite often, some kind of GUI would be nice.
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May 6, 2010
how to read aloud the text in a PDF document?whatPDF readers can be used for text to speech conversion
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Feb 7, 2010
After my ubuntu 9.10 had updated automatically it started talk something when login screen appears. Also after every startup, process named speech-dispatcher appears and it uses almost 100% of CPU and I have to kill it manually. I removed file speech-dispatch from /etc/init.d, but it didn't help.
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Mar 13, 2010
How can I record text to speech output from festival to an audio file like mp3 or ogg?
My guess would be to pipe it to a command line recorder
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Jul 14, 2010
MPlayer asked for Windows Media Speech Decoder plugin, it tried searching for the plugin but it wasn't found. I also couldn't find it in Synaptic Package manager. i wonder where and how i can get it.
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Sep 22, 2010
Any good TEXT-TO-SPEECH programs on linux?
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Sep 29, 2010
I am interested to install an application which will convert my speech into text. I speak British English. Waiting for a reply.
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Jan 11, 2011
I'm looking into getting an ok microphone for guitar, song and speech, to use with Ubuntu. It's for hobby use, so I don't need the best microphone, just something that is good and will work in Ubuntu. Any recommendations? Should I get an USB one, or just a normal one and use my built in sound card?
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Mar 23, 2011
Title is pretty much the best description i can give. I have a second computer that i'm trying to put ubuntu on except i just can't boot into it. I've tried multiple ways be it from usb, from cd/dvd, installing it through wubi and reinstalling... Every single time a get some error due to speech dispatcher not being enabled and that is causing it to get stuck at the splash screen...
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Apr 24, 2011
Does anyone of a converter that can convert audio to text on Ubuntu?
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Jul 13, 2011
One of my friends seems to have been won over to the idea of me installing Linux onto his pc but he relies heavily on Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition which unfortunately isn't available for Linux.
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Jun 19, 2011
I want to develop a system that converts speech to text in C sharp in Windows 7 platform.I haven't enough idea about this one.From google that,there will be grammerbuliding.Moreover i think,there will be a problem of spelling words correctly. from where i will start or which steps i should follow to develop the system??
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Aug 31, 2010
After 5+ years of using Ubuntu, I am switching to it as my desktop. On my old FreeBSD desktop i was running KDE3; now I am runnung 10.04.1 and find that even tho things are more friendly with KDE4, one of the tools I use most,kttsmgr, no longer works like it did on my previous desktop.
How can I configure kttsmgr to use festival (right now it says "espeak") and to present the dialogue that prints the strings beneath what is being read? --Note that I downloaded flite and eflite for testing purposes. Both fail. not a peep. I do have audio with songs and can listen to streams, but nothing from ktts*
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Sep 13, 2010
I'm finding increasingly difficult to type because of neurological problems. I've just had a meeting with someone from university who said they could get me some speech recognition software to write assignments. I was wondering if anyone knows of any which will run on Ubuntu rather than just Windows. (I don't have Windows on either of my computers)
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Apr 2, 2016
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The text to speech software is free. Is it open source?
I do not know how to install it on debian and set it as the voice of espeak speech synthesizer.
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Nov 10, 2010
I'm using Fedora 14 / KDE and I'm having problems trying to start the Speech Dispatcher.I get the fallowing from the logs:Code:error while loading shared libraries: libsdaudio.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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Dec 9, 2010
I have installed Fedora 11 recently on a new system. Sphinx speech recognition was working fine on my old system. When i run the same project on my new system, the system does not respond as it is waiting for microphone voice input.Then I checked the microphone and have set it properly and its working now. The details how i made my microphone working is at the following link:
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Originally Posted by danfe
[root@amit ~]# uname -r
2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE
[root@amit ~]# lspci | grep Audio
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Aug 2, 2011
On my centos 5.6 , the KMouth is functioning for 'text to speech' facility. Can you please let me know if we have 'speech to text' facility for centos?
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May 25, 2011
I am trying to use some text to speech tool named pyttsx in ubuntu Linux 9.
but I get the following message, does anybody know, which package should I use, to solve this package ?
Code:
aarsh@aarsh-desktop:~/program_files/pyttsx-1.0$ sudo python setup.pyTraceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 18, in <module>
from ez_setup import use_setuptools
ImportError: No module named ez_setup
aarsh@aarsh-desktop:~/program_files/pyttsx-1.0$
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Mar 4, 2011
My wife is taking an online language course that requires Windows in order to record and playback speech (for pronunciation training). I decided the easiest thing to do would be to clone a VM I use on my machine for tasks that can only be accomplished in a Windows environment. I did so, and successfully installed the speech recognition utility on the Windows guest VM. Unfortunately, although the microphone works just fine--I can hear my voice in the headphones--no sound is recorded by the speech recognition utility. Just to be clear, the microphone is fully functional under GNU/Linux. My wife has been using Skype without any issues at all. That is, Skype used to work. Somewhere during the course of trying to resolve the voice recording problem I managed to break Skype. I have no idea how.
It's a long story, but I'll try to be as brief as possible. When I could not get the VM solution to work properly, I thought maybe the problem was with the VM, so I checked the original copy on my own machine. No problem there. Windows sees and hears the microphone just fine (using the testing utility under sound configuration). So how is it possible that the microphone doesn't work in the cloned VM image? Before you stop me, allow me to note that both machines have identical motherboards, and both are configured to use the onboard sound. Sound works on the Linux host and the Windows guest VM. Both sound and microphone work in the original VM image on my machine, but only sound works in the cloned VM on my wife's machine.
If you've followed me down the rabbit hole this far, please continue with me a bit further as things get stranger and stranger. After triple checking all the setting in KMix (I'm running Squeeze/KDE on both machines) to be sure they were identical, I noted that I was unable to view/add/enable the "channel" option on my wife's machine. Why, I have no idea. As I said, the machines are identical as can be both regarding hardware and software. Out of desperation, I decided to set up an account for my wife on my machine. I created her account, made sure she had the necessary audio permissions, then cloned my VM to her account. Same problem.
I would love for someone to point out what I'm missing here. Same hardware, identical VM (clone), same permissions, same sound configurations in KMix and under the Windows guest VM. How is it possible for the microphone to work for me, but not for my wife? Is there some mystery configuration file somewhere that has magically been altered for her account alone? The worst part about this entire process is that I've broken my wife's Skype, which is a big deal seeing as we live in a tiny country in the heart of Africa and cell phone communications are very expensive.
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Sep 30, 2015
I installed some time ago a Wheezy with speech synthesis, so the audio _does_ work, as I currently can hear boot messages. However, after login I can't hear any other audio, neither streaming nor mp3.
The boot messages feature some complaint about Pulse Audio. (I get similar complaints on another machine whose audio does work anyway)
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Aug 10, 2010
Debian testing: $ uname -a Linux jilldando 2.6.32-trunk-486 #1 Sun Jan 10 05:53:18 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Today I upgraded my PC with a Radeon HD 5550 video card, it has HDMI o/p with sound on it. After boot up I get get the usual sounds from the mother boards onboard intel sound card EXCEPT speech. Initially I thought it would just be that alsa might be piping synth usuage to the Radeon card so I edited the alsa-base.conf file. So I added the following to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf alias snd-card-4 snd_hda_intel
and changed: options snd_hda_intel index=0 to: options snd_hda_intel index=0,4 and rebooted, but this made no difference. Still startup sounds and sounds etc but no speech. I used the alsa project to check and these are the results: Code:
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