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Voxygen TTS
About
Voxygen Expressive Speech
Set up in 2011 and headquartered in Brittany on the northwest coast of France, Voxygen quickly ranked among the market leaders in the field of Speech Synthesis
Contact :
Route du Radôme Pôle Phoenix - Bâtiment B1 22560 Pleumeur-Bodou France Tel +33 2 96 14 12 81 contact@voxygen.fr
Website: http://www.voxygen.fr/en/
Definition
Voxygen offers more than 60 voices in 10 languages, with another 20 voices road-mapped in 10 new languages. Worldwide, Voxygen is the only speech editor able to produce distinctive and multi-expressive voices capable of reflecting true human personalities.
Languages
French (a lot of voices, of any kind ,including funnies ones, more than 30 ) . English () .
Installation
If your distribution does not use 'rpm' nor 'deb' please us to get specific installation packages or support.
Download the TTS binaries packages after contacting the Voxygen sales.
# dpkg -i Voxygen-engines-x.yy.deb # dpkg -i --force-overwrite Voxygen-clients-x.yy.deb # dpkg -i --force-overwrite Voxygen-tts-*-x.yy.deb # dpkg -i --force-overwrite Voxygen-asr-*-x.yy.deb (for the ASR)
If you have a license in a USB token, you need to install the USB token driver ('sntl-sud_x.y.z-w_i386.deb').
You will find the sntl package at:
/usr/share/doc/Voxygen
Then you start with:
# cd /usr/share/doc/Voxygen # dpkg -i sntl-sud_7.3.0-1_i386.deb
You need to reboot the server to enable the USB deamon ().
If you have a file licence, please copy it to:
/opt/Voxygen/lic/
Download and install our connector package for Voxygen.
First unzip and untar it by using the command:
# tar xvzf Voxygen_Vx.x_date.tar.gz
Next, go to the directory of the Voxygen and type the following command:
# cd Voxygen_Vx.x_date # ./install.sh
Configuration
The TTS package install the HTTP scripts in:
/var/www/tts/Voxygen
In a default Debian installation, you can test the TTS installation at:
http://yourip/tts/Voxygen/tts.html
This web page will generate your TTS raw alaw or ulaw files.
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.