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The flite tag refers to the speech synthesizer from Carnegie Mellon University

CMU Flite (festival-lite) is a small, fast run-time open source text to speech synthesis engine developed at CMU and primarily designed for small embedded machines and/or large servers. Flite is designed as an alternative text to speech synthesis engine to Festival for voices built using the FestVox suite of voice building tools. (source: http://www.festvox.org/flite/)

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High-Quality Text-To-Speech engine for personal use

I'm looking for a high-quality TTS engine that I can afford (let's say less than 1000$). So far, I've tried flite and festival with default voices. However, while the results are certainly understandable, technical texts are hard to…
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Getting flite to output audio with PortAudio

I am trying to get the flite speech synthesis library to work on my Mac, but my sound architecture isn't supported within the flite library. To fix that problem, I am using PortAudio to playback the synthesized audio; so I had to do a little bit of…
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Text to speech: highlighting word by word for iphone

I am doing text to speech on a UITextView by using flite-1.4-iphone. While reading the text, I want to automatically highlight the text word by word. How can I synchronize the voice to the text highlighting while reading? How can I highlight the…
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Extending android TTS engine

Adding a new language to the existing TTS engine in android, May I modify the existing engine without starting from scratch? since the speech synthesis framework is somewhat done, maybe I can implement a TTS for my language according to that instead…
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Error installing flite on Mac OSX

I have downloaded the latest source distribution of flite, and went about the usual process of installing it. $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install However, I run into a strange error when I try to install the library to my system. $ sudo make…
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How to install flite for epitran on Windows

I'm trying to use python's package epitran https://pypi.org/project/epitran/0.10/ on windows which returns the IPA representation of words. For english, as the website says, I need to install flite from here…
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Flite text-to-speech program with MSVC - Unresolved external symbols

I'm trying to use MSVC to compile a C program with the Flite text-to-speech library, but I'm getting unresolved external symbol errors. I started with the "C Example" from the Flite docs but they use gcc. I was able to get rid of some errors by…
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How Do I use CMU Flite TTS engine in my application?

I am developing an android application for text to speech in Indian languages and for that CMU Flite provides indic language voice databases. But I don't know how to use this plug in in my application. Please help me. In which way I can use Flite…
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Development of TTs System using Flite

I am developing android application for illiterate people. One of the feature of this application is to read the text that application produces. So I am in need of the Text To Speech System. I found some of the Frameworks that suits me theoritically…
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Convert festival tts to flite tts

i currently have a tts which is built using festival and festvox. i need to convert these voices and build a TTS in flite. apparently you can do the conversion using festvox (the festvox and flite websites say so but no proper steps on how to do…
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Monotouch mtouch arguments problems

Having trouble getting these two arguments to play nice when compiling a project. Any help would be much appreciated. -gcc_flags "-L${ProjectDir} -lflite -all_load" -nosymbolstrip -nostrip -cxx -gcc_flags " -lgcc_eh -L${ProjectDir} -ltestflight…
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Flite API error on windows

I build flite for windows, the code is: #include "..\\include\\flite.h" cst_voice *register_cmu_us_kal(); int main(int argc, char **argv) { cst_voice *v; if (argc != 2) { fprintf(stderr, "usage: flite_test FILE\n"); …
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Service connection leaked with a custom TTS engine

I am using CMU Flite TTS engine for my android application. I have initialized android TTS object using engine name and also calle its shupdown method in onDestroy but still I'm getting Service connection leaked error. 03-29 15:15:37.286…
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Flite doesn't produce speech without creating a .WAV file?

I am trying to run flite TTS for a project, and I encountering an issue where there's no output sound when I run this command. flite -t hello But, when I run this command, it creates a .wav file and I can play it. flite -t hello -o hello.wav I…
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FliteController within a loop

So I have this loop: for (int i =0; i< ([rounds_words count]-1); i++){ [self.fliteController say:[rounds_words objectAtIndex:(i)] withVoice:self.slt]; } Where array_o_words is an array of strings that I would like to use OpenEars' TtS engine…
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