Flite

Flite: a small, fast run time synthesis engine

From Flite authors: "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."

Installation

$ make menuconfig

Package Selection for the target  --->
    Audio libraries and applications  --->

Usage

• Make sure your Audio Out is working. If not configure ALSA.
• Use command line tool:

# flite -t "Hello world"

• to list available voices:

# flite -lv
Voices available: kal awb_time kal16 awb rms slt

• to use a different voice (here rms):

# flite -voice rms -t "You've got a new mail"

Note: If you get a "Segmentation Fault" when launching your OpenGL demos, try to do an # export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libpthread.so.0 just before.

• to know more about flite command: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/doc/flite_7.html#SEC15

Perf

• Some voices are quite long to compute, even on APF27 (ARM9 @ 400Mhz)

Links

• Flite website