Posted by Nikolaus Gradwohl
Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:33:00 GMT
To use mbrola-voices with the processing ttslib make sure you have installed the
newest version of ttslib (version 0.2 at the time of writing). Download the mbrola-binary
for your system and make sure the binary is named mbrola (or else freetts won't find it).
Make sure you can live with the mbrola-licence.
Download the us voices you want to use and unzip them to the directory where your mbrola binary
lives.
on my linux system the content of the mbrola directory looks like this
./mbrola206a-linux-ppc
./mbrola-linux-alpha
./mbrola_linux_libc5
./mbrola
./mbrola-linux-i386
./mbrola302b-linux-ppc
./us1
./us1/us1mrpa
./us1/license.txt
./us1/us1.txt
./us1/TEST
./us1/TEST/xmas.pho
./us1/TEST/alice.pho
./us1/TEST/push.pho
./us1/TEST/mbroli.ini
./us1/TEST/mbrola.pho
./us1/us1
./us2
./us2/license.txt
./us2/us2.txt
./us2/TEST
./us2/TEST/babel.pho
./us2/TEST/alice.pho
./us2/TEST/mbroli.ini
./us2/TEST/mbrola.pho
./us2/us2
./us3
./us3/us3
./us3/us3.txt
./us3/license.txt
./us3/TEST
./us3/TEST/cslu.pho
./us3/TEST/diphone.pho
./us3/TEST/mike.pho
./us3/TEST/mbroli.ini
in the setup method of your processing sketch set the absolute path to your mbrola directory
as a java system property. Now the name of the mbrola voice you want to use can be added
as a string parameter to the TTS constructor
import guru.ttslib.*;
TTS tts;
void setup() {
System.setProperty("mbrola.base","/path/to/mbrola/");
tts = new TTS("mbrola_us1");
}
void draw() {
}
void mousePressed() {
tts.speak("Hello! I'm a talking processing sketch!");
}
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Posted by Nikolaus Gradwohl
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:44:00 GMT
Varvara Guljajeva is using my processing tts library for her lates project
My name is 192.168.159.16.
My name is 192.168.159.16 - is a metaphorical visualization of nowadays-human beings. In my point of view we are not
bounded to one body anymore. We are extended through networks to infinity. The location does not matter, what matters
is connection. Thus, at this point I totally agree with Mitchell “disconnection would be amputation. I link therefore,
I am.” We are becoming gradually fully equipped and totally dependent on technology cyberorgs.
The installation consists of 4 dolls in each a speaker inside, 4 relays, arduino, a computer, and a modem.
We are using Processing, TTS (text to speech), and Arduino. The independent and at the same time isolated network
is created. IP addresses are continuously renewed and sent to a random doll. Thus only one doll is speaking at a
time (4 speakers are controlled by 4 relays through arduino).
the installation looks really cool - a bit creepy what she did to the dolls :-)
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Posted by Nikolaus Gradwohl
Sat, 16 May 2009 18:31:00 GMT
i have written another library for processing. This time its a wrapper around the freetts library
now processing sketches can have a voice too.
click here to go to the project page.
i cannot present an applet as an example this time, because freetts doesn't work in applets. So i
show the example.
import guru.ttslib.*;
TTS tts;
void setup() {
size(100,100);
smooth();
tts = new TTS();
}
void draw() {
background(255);
fill(255);
ellipse( 35, 30, 25, 35 );
ellipse( 65, 30, 25, 35 );
fill(0);
ellipse( 40, 35, 10, 10 );
ellipse( 60, 35, 10, 10 );
noFill();
arc(50,50,50,50,0,PI);
}
void mousePressed() {
tts.speak("Hi! I am a speaking Processing sketch");
}
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