Author : T Shrinivasan tshrinivasan@gmail.com
git clone https://github.com/tshrinivasan/tamil-tts-install.git
This is a modified script of above authors code for Kannada
This is a script to install the Kannada text to Speech System provided by IIT Madras https://www.iitm.ac.in/donlab/tts/voices.php
- Ubuntu 16.04
- Ubuntu 18.04
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git clone https://github.com/ravish0007/kannada-tts-install.git
cd kannada-tts-install
./kannada-tts.sh --clean --setup
##For other languages
Modify htsvoice url in installation script and experiment with it,
you might be having trouble in configuring, explore www.iitm.ac.in/donlab/tts
## How to convert kannada text to .wav
For now, once installed go to build/packages/HTS-demo-ARCTIC-SLT or a similar named directory and
sh hts_synthesis.sh "kannada string" outputfile
find the outputfile.wav file in gen/gen/qst001/ver1/outputfile.wav in HTS-demo-ARCTIC-SLT directory
cd kannada-tts-install ./kannada-tts.sh --run --source kannada-text.txt
This will generate 'kannada-text.wav' file
## How to convert kannada text to .mp3
cd kannada-tts-install ./kannada-tts.sh --run --gen-mp3 --source kannada-text.txt
This will generate 'kannada-text.mp3' file
## howto set your own HTKUSER and HTKPASSWORD in kannada-tts.sh
Register here http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/download.shtml and get a username and password, replace your
own username and passward in HTKUSER and HTKPASSWORD