Notices

Ok, i'll remove the link now that ichmoimeyo has told me where a better build of flite can be downloaded, but i'll leave the wav anyways


If you want to hear a sample text-to-speech wav file, listen to this wav :
http://wardenclyffetower.com/MaemoFiles/tramride.wav

If you want to download the official build (not mine) use this repo :
Maemo Contrib
http://repository.maemo.org/contrib
bora | free

and then look for :
flite (v. 1.3)

gnuite has been providing flite for use with maemo mapper and it speaks directly, without the intermediate wav

I thought that was an old arm (os2005) build... so his tts engine works on newer os? Can you use it now or do you just think thats how it works?

I am on 2008 right now so its kind of in weird state, but ive got maemo mapper on there and only see an option for flite (requires it to be installed). Is it separate download or installed with main deb? Since i dont have gps i never had need/capability to use that feature.

So can you point me to the location of the flite executable?

I used Flite on my N800/OS2007 a couple of weeks ago with Kismet, seemed to work fine. I don't recall exactly where I downloaded it but here's a good command to use before you start your next project.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=flite+maemo

http://repository.maemo.org/extras
bora
free non-free

Repository install file

Found it by searching for 'flite' here:
http://gronmayer.com/n800/repos/

[flite (v. 1.3)]

Thanks ichmoimeyo! I got it from the Contrib repository which the gronmayer site linked me to. And yes it works in real time... perfect.

No need for my build anymore, this looks perfect... i'll just need to archive it while i have it. All i did was compile it anyways so no real loss... although that did take forever.

Thanks for the gronmayer site link too, i have added that as bookmark.

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Update : ok so i found a minor flaw but still good enough for what i would need it for. Don't try to use a text file as input, it will only play or output noise. Instead just input text on the command line like flite "text to speak" or flite "text to speak" out.wav, the flite input.txt and flite input.txt out.wav methods generate noise.

The following does work for me, pipeline.
I created a new note in the default Notes application [Format - File Format - Plain text], called myText, and saved it to my external SD card.
I typed the following into Xterm:
flite /media/mmc1/myText.txt

flite also works with the command line and lighter GUI version of StarDict called sdcv

I highly recommend StarDict; it is very fast and (optionally) automatically pops up a translation etc, when you highlight a word in an application on the n800.[browser, FBReader...etc] [dictionaries]

[StarDict screenshots and installation explanation I made in another thread]