Hello ohtravoiso,

Ok sending short tutor how to make processing speaking..

1. Download FreeTTS - java speech synthetiser

2. Put all of jars inside the CODE dir in your sketch folder, should looks like this:

Quote:


3. Try my messy class called "Basnik" :
Code:

import com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice;
import com.sun.speech.freetts.VoiceManager;
import com.sun.speech.freetts.audio.JavaClipAudioPlayer;

public class Basnik {
  String voiceName = "kevin16";
  VoiceManager voiceManager;
  Voice voice; 
    
  Basnik(String name){
    voiceName = name;     
    this.setup(); 
  }
  
  void listAllVoices() {
    System.out.println();
    System.out.println("All voices available:");	  
    VoiceManager voiceManager = VoiceManager.getInstance();
    Voice[] voices = voiceManager.getVoices();
    for (int i = 0; i < voices.length; i++) {
	System.out.println("    " + voices[i].getName()
	  + " (" + voices[i].getDomain() + " domain)");
    }
  }

  void setup() {
    listAllVoices();
    System.out.println();
    System.out.println("Using voice: " + voiceName);

    voiceManager = VoiceManager.getInstance();
    voice = voiceManager.getVoice(voiceName);	

    voice.setPitch(1.75);
    voice.setPitchShift(0.75);
   // voice.setPitchRange(10.1); //mutace
    voice.setStyle("casual");  //"business", "casual", "robotic", "breathy"

    if (voice == null) {
	System.err.println(
	"Cannot find a voice named "
	  + voiceName + ".  Please specify a different voice.");
	System.exit(1);
    }	
    voice.allocate();
  }

  void mluv(String _a){     

    if(_a==null){
	_a= "nothing"; 
    }
    voice.speak(_a);

  }

  void exit(){
    voice.deallocate();  
  }
} 

4. and use a class like this: Code:

Basnik verlaine;

void setup(){
 verlaine = new Basnik("kevin16");
 verlaine.mluv("hello, ohtravioso, do you hear me?") ;
} 

modify as you need
.. wish you good luck!

kof

I'm working on a project(experimenting) that uses speech in Processing. I tried the tutorial on here about using FreeTTS and I cam up with this error
ERROR:::
The import"com/sun/FreeTTS/Voice" is not valid, since it does not name a type in a package.

Can any one help me out

thank you, for your reply. The problem was calling the classes . I figured it out and it works now. cool tutorial, Thanks.

hello lali...m a beginner....can u pls send me a running code for text to speech....when i run the demos it works fine....but i am not able to run my own applications....please send me all the details about freetts(which jar files te be copied,classpaths to set.etc,etc)...just wanna run a simle helloworld example.....plssssssssssssssssssssssssssss


thanks

I got TTSlibary working but i would like to change the voice. is there any way for that?

Hi everyone,

Thanks so much for putting this stuff up!  The Processing community is amazing.

I'm a bit of a novice and I'm having trouble... I was able to get Guru's wrapper to work, but I want to run the program as written by kof to get at the pitch, voices, etc.  

Here's what I did:

downloaded the FreeTTS-1.2 folder
copied the unzipped folder to my Processing -> Libraries folder
created a new sketch and copied kof's "messy class called 'Basnik'" code
added the .jar files to that sketch
tried to run the sketch... fail

First off, I don't know what to do with the other class definition:
Code:

Basnik verlaine;

void setup(){
 verlaine = new Basnik("kevin16");
 verlaine.mluv("hello, ohtravioso, do you hear me?") ;
}  

The error message I had gotten was:
"Cannot parse error text: File /var/folders/cA/cAk9KFBcEd00oOQqVw4LYE+++TI/-Tmp-/build8236272106602607481.tmp/B
asnik.java is missing"

I'd really appreciate any help.  I bet I'm just missing some basic step... don't totally understand the syntax of how the sketches are calling the .jar libraries and what happens behind the scenes, so it's hard to debug my own problem.  

Thanks so much!

Or, alternatively, you shall try and use Guru's wrapper at http://www.local-guru.net/blog/pages/ttslib mentioned above (http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/num_1204335245.html#8) with the caveat that it wouldn't work if you try to deploy it as part of an applet.