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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Using TTS engines of Windows in Linux

I like Neospeech TTS engines, but TTS engines only support in Win$. In linux, i try install it by wine.
For GUI, you can install TextAloud, eSpeak. Here is instruction of install TextAloud by using wine.
eSpeak also support command line to read text but i can't choose specific TTS engines with it :(.
Then i try using sapi2wav . Sapi2wav support reading from strings or text and output to wav file. But with neospeech TTS engines, output not good as i expected.
Finally, i found Say++. This tools quite simple, it's allow read string from command line with default TTS engines. Voice quality quite good.
I try to change default TTS engine to Neospeech engine.
1. Try to find out list of TTS engine on Win$. Open regedit, go walk to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens. It will show you a list TTS engines.
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Speech\Voices and edit key DefaultTokenId to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens\[TTS engines].







SVN of JDEE

SourceForge.net: JDEE: SCM
svn co https://jdee.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jdee jdee


Wednesday, April 8, 2009

http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com/2009/03/extra-repositories-for-ubuntu-810-you.html

http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com/2009/03/extra-repositories-for-ubuntu-810-you.html

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Pidgin lastest

Me, Myself and Technology » Blog Archive » Latest Pidgin/Rhythmbox repository for Ubuntu
Latest Pidgin/Rhythmbox repository for Ubuntu
December 18th 2007 in Deb, Latest, Linux, Messenger, Open Source, Pidgin, Repository, Rhythmbox, Ubuntu, Uncategorized

Here is a repository i use on my gutsy install which always contains the latest builds of Pidgin and Rhythmbox. So no more hunting for debs or compiling sources :D

Steps to add the repository:

1. Open Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal)

2. Type “gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list”

3. Go to the end of the file and add the following onto a new line:

## Latest Pidgin/Rhythmbox
deb http://www.telemail.fi/mlind/ubuntu gutsy main

4. Save the file and close Gedit.

5. Add the public key so that apt does not complain about any authentication errors (type into terminal):

wget http://www.telemail.fi/mlind/ubuntu/937215FF.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

6. Update your system (type in terminal)

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

7. Voila! You should now have the latest Pidgin and Rhythmbox!