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Subprocess, stderr to DEVNULL but errors are printed

I am working on a French chatbot using python. For a first text-to-speech attempt, I am using espeak with mbrola. I call it with subprocess : from subprocess import run, DEVNULL def speak(text): command = ["espeak", "-vmb-fr1", text] …
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add new voices to freeTTS other than us voices

I am working on a speech recognition project, therefore I need to have audio files for more than thousands of words. I have done everything correctly in order to use Mbrola voices in FreeTTS but I can only use us1,us2,us3. It doesn't recognize any…
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How to change voice in FreeTTS - Java

I am running a program in java in which i use FreeTTS Voices, what i want is to change the voice. when i run the program it shows: "System property "mbrola.base" is undefined. Will not use MBROLA voices." I use the following code to speak up…
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Mbrola.base is undefined

I am trying to use the Freetts text to speech api.I have included all the jar files into my project.I have also copied the speech.properties file into home folder.But I am getting an error System property mbrola.base undefined.Will not use mbrola…
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Using Mbrola voices with pyttsx3

I am currently trying to use pyttsx3 on an application. I have no issue on that but the client would like the application to be delivered with the voices which pyttsx3 doesn't do becauseit use the voices of the os. Our idea is therefore to use…
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mbrola voice throws ProcessException "No audio data read" on linux CentOS

I am using mbrola voice (us1) on CentOS. I am trying to save the audio as wav file. But at the line (in bold below) - voice.speak(), it throws an exception ProcessException "No audio data read". It works fine when I run it on windows environment…
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cant install mbrola female spanish voice from ppa for espeak how I could install it?

appear this error Unable to locate package mbrola-es3 how i CCould solve this is my code sudo apt-get install mbrola mbrola-es3 espeak -v mb-es3 "Hola mundo" -w foo.wav please help me
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How to use Mbrola voices (more than us1, us2 and us3) in Java with FreeTTS?

I want to know if it's possible to use some extra voice from here with FreeTTS, rather than only us1, us2 and us3. Particularly a non-english voice. import com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice; import com.sun.speech.freetts.VoiceManager; public class…
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Example on System.Speech.Synthesis.TtsEngine?

Do you know of any (simple) examples on the namespace System.Speech.Synthesis.TtsEngine? I'd like to use a TTS engine that allows me to control the pitch, the rate and the volume of the output voice. It looks like the namespace mentioned above…
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how to setup mbrola in UBUNTU for a simple java program

I am trying to use mbrola voices in java program but the there is no specific way to include mbrola in my java program . It is working fine in the below code import com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice; import com.sun.speech.freetts.VoiceManager; public…
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espeak skips the first phoneme of the sentence

I am trying to use espeak for text to speech on a respeaker core v2. If my sentence is "Begin Recording", then espeak only speaks "egin Recording". It occasionally says it correctly. How do I fix this? I tried adding some random characters ahead of…
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How can I make Python speak with mbrola?

I need to create a Python program, which will speak the numbers chosen randomly. Like, Python gives me number 11, and with mbrola, it says "eleven". It's very simple, I've created almost everything, but the only thing I need is - make Python speaks…
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mbrola Binary for linux CentOS

I am trying to use mbrola binary on CentOS box. I tried many binary listed on below page but none is working. http://www.tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/mbrcopybin.html I am getting following error - Processing Utterance:…
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Outputting Java Speech sound as .wav file

I have been looking for a way to save the output of speech synthesis as a .wav file. I have downloaded FreeTTS and CloudGarden, but FreeTTS has problems with setting up MBROLA voices on windows machines, and the CloudGarden examples contain…
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How to add a new voice to MBROLA - FreeTTS

I took several days trying to add different voices that us1, us2 and us3 in a project with MBROLA and FreeTTS. I'm working with Eclipse on Windows (64bits) I have read all this messages: How to change voice in FreeTTS - Java freetts - text to…
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