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$ sudo apt-get remove winbind & sudo apt-get install winbind $ wine ~/Downloads/Arch/Ivona_Voice_1.6_Marlene_22kHz.exe Also I've installed the Marlene 22kHz Demo voice to compare it with Hans German voice. $ wine ~/Downloads/Arch/ivona2_installer_pak_tatyana.exe $ wine ~/Downloads/Arch/ivona2_installer_pak_jacek.exe $ wine ~/Downloads/Arch/ivona2_installer_pak_ir.exe $ wine ~/Downloads/Arch/ivona2_installer_pak_brian.exe $ wine ~/Downloads/Arch/expressivo_pl_jacek.exe Next install my old ivona software with voices, and the license keys to activate them. Set up Libraries & Audio settings as shown below. $ winecfg // Set up Windows XP (maybe it would be better to set it before the Hans voice installation). $ wine ~/Downloads/Hansue1h.exe // install ivona Hans voice. Recommend compact install when prompted by installer for components to install $ wine ~/Downloads/ta4064.exe // install ta4 (TextAloud app) version 4.064. $ winetricks dotnet40 // required for our installers to work. Note this displays a *lot* of error messages but seems to work $ winetricks speechsdk // required for sapi5 to work $ winecfg // create the wine prefix directory, just exit the dialog that is displayed $ export WINEPREFIX=~/win32 // basically tell wine where the system C: drive should be placed

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$ export WINEARCH=win32 // set the architecture to 32 bit (even when you are under 64 bit system) $ sudo apt install wine64 // install 64 bit version of wine

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$ sudo apt update -y & sudo apt full-upgrade -y & sudo apt autoremove -y & sudo apt clean -y & sudo apt autoclean -y //the way I like to make sure your system is up to date Note: Windows XP with turned off updates option - is fast and stable for the audiobooks creation. You can run Virtual Box (or similar software) under many Operating Systems, simulating other systems. So, I've used my old Ivona license within Virtual Box # Windows XP under Ubuntu (Xubuntu and POP!_OS). And it's not only about customized advertisements profile. It can get risky when every word you listened would be collected by the company focused on the income. Long term costs - not under my control.Now, instead of paying for the offline license (where software could work offline), Amazon offers pay per word. Yet, Amazon bought Ivona and 'killed it'. Since 2010, I've listened to thousands of books, mostly using 'Ivona Text to Speech'. Offline voices with the SAPI5 (22kHz) quality standard or better - are not that common (for Linux).īelow, you will get the info how you can use high-quality voices (like TextAloud) in Linux. But, that’s just my opinion.I love audiobooks, and hate that there is a limited choice of the TTS (Text-To-Speech) apps for Linux.

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I’ve used the text-to-speech software of Mac OS X before and I must say that it’s more functional than those we currently have for Linux. I haven't tried it yet so for those of you who have, please share with us your experiences of using Orca. It also has a phrase book and word completion options.įor GNOME users, you can use Orca’s speech synthesizer. KMouth also contains a history of spoken phrases so the users can easily select phrases from the history which he/she wants to be re-spoken using a few mouse clicks. $ dcop kttsd KSpeech setText 'Hello World' 'en'Ī user can type a word, phrase, or sentences that he/she wants to hear through its input field. Try to make it speak “Hello World” by typing these commands from the Linux terminal: In KDE desktop, there's already a text-to-speech software installed by default called KTTS, but it is currently under development.

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From the terminal, simply navigate to where your text file is located, and use this command:įor more information and other options on using Festival, you can read the complete manual from HERE. Make it speak by typing this from the command line:įestival can also be very useful if you want it to read a whole text file.

Open a terminal and start festival with this command:Ī prompt will appear. It can read whatever you type on the command line. Once installed, you can immediately set it to work. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English (British and American), and Spanish) though English is the most advanced.įestival is probably available in most distro repositories so just search for it and install it via the package manager. As a whole, it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface. As described from its project website: Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. If you've been looking for a free speech synthesizer for Linux, the one that I can highly recommend is a program called Festival.

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