Tamil-text2vocie

Thanks to : T Shrinivasan tshrinivasan@gmail.com for the shell python script.

This is a script to install the Tamil text to Speech System provided by IIT Madras and SSN College of Engineering.

System requirements:

Ubuntu 16.04

Will it work on Windows?

No.

How to execute:

git clone https://github.com/sureshnswamy/tamil-text2voice.git

cd tamil-text2voice

Edit the file, install-tamil-tts.sh

Fill the following details.

DOWNLOAD_PATH=/home/yourpath~/packages #to download the required packages

COMPILE_PATH=/home/yourpath~/compiled # to place the compiled files and folders

Register here http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/download.shtml and get a username and password

HTKUSER=username

HTKPASSWORD=password

Then, execute the file as

bash install-tamil-tts.sh

How to convert a text to audio?

export FESTDIR=/usr


cd COMPILE_PATH
ssn_hts_demo/scripts/complete “தமிழ் வாழ்க” linux

This will convert the text and store as wav in

ssn_hts_demo/wav/1.wav

you can play it with any audio player.

The full details of what is on the compile process is explained here

To hear a demo on how the tamil TTS system sounds, click here

How to convert a full text file to audio?

Prepare the tamil text content as a text file. Save it as ".txt" extension.

open the file convert-file-to-audio.py, with any text editor and replace the following two parapeters with suitable folders.

ssn_demo_path = "/home/yourpath/ssn_hts_demo"

mp3_out_path = "/home/yourpath/test"

Then execute the below command

python convert-file-to-audio.py <filename.txt>

This will make mp3 file and store in the folder mp3_out_path/filename-timestamp