Flite - a small text to speech for embedded systems
Last time I wrote about Festival: Text to Speech on Linux. Now I found a derived version of them, it called Flite. Flite (festival-lite) is a small, fast run-time synthesis engine developed at CMU and primarily designed for small embedded machines and/or large servers. Flite is designed as an alternative synthesis engine to Festival for voices built using the FestVox suite of voice building tools. To enable it on Ubuntu (8.04), you just type:
sudo apt-get install flite
and then everything will be ready for you. To test it just type:
flite -t "Hello world"
and this will speak the sentence in quotation. If you want to generate the sound from file, use this command:
flite -f filename.txtIt’s a nice text to speech engine. I think I will try to port to an embedded device for the future project.
