====== Flite TTS ======
===== About =====
**Speech CS CMU **
Carnegie Mellon University\\
5000 Forbes Ave\\
Pittsburgh, PA 15213\\
USA
Website: __[[http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/|http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/]]__
===== Definition =====
Flite is a free open source Text-to-Speech engine. 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.
===== Languages =====
American, English
===== Installation =====
Unzip and untar the Flite package by using the command:
# tar xvzf flite_V1.x_date.tar.gz
Go to the directory of the Flite and then, type the following command.
# cd flite_V1.x_date
# ./install.sh
===== Configuration =====
This is the PHP script used to generate wav files from Flite:
The TTS package install the HTTP scripts in:
/var/www/tts/flite
In a default Debian installation, you can test the TTS installation with :
http://yourip/tts/flite/index.php
This web page will generate wav files in PCM 16bit 8kHz mono.
===== Release Notes =====
Install the script on your Apache/PHP server. Configure the VoiceXML Browser (Text-to-Speech Option) and restart the VoiceXML interpreter to get the new configuration.
Flite have a dependency to libasound (with Debian install the package libasound2).