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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
- Arabic
- English (UK )
- French (France )
- Italian
- Spanish ( Spain )
Installation
Voxygen TTS products are called baratinoo, and current version 7.4 (04/2015) For linux, there are tgz packages. There are voices package ans ES_Server. Baratinoo do not support x64, so you need to install first 32 bist compatbility packages: For Debian or Ubuntu, install the ia32-libs package.For Red Hat or Centos, install the glibc.i686 package. This is mandatory.
Download the TTS binaries packages after contacting the Voxygen sales. Here is what they looks like
Agnes.4.2_7.4_16i.lin.tgz Amanda.2.0_7.4_16i.lin.tgz Arnaud_neutre.1.0_7.4_16i.lin.tgz Bibi.3.0_7.4_16i.lin.tgz Bronwen.1.3_7.4_16i.lin.tgz Bronwen.1.3_7.4_16i.lin.tgz.md5sum Damien.2.2_7.4_16i.lin.tgz Damien.2.2_7.4_16i.lin.tgz.md5sum ES_server_7.4_1_linx86.tgz ...
You can check files md5 (checksum) with the file md5sum, if you have any doubt. Install is just extracing ES_Server package into /opt directory
tar -C /opt -zxf ES_server_7.4_1_linx86.tgz cd /opt/baratinoo7.4_1
Then you install each voice package. Just extract the voice archive in the <baratinoo>/config directory without changing the directories structure.
tar -C /opt/baratinoo7.4_1/config Agnes.4.2_7.4_16i.lin.tgz
If you have a lot a voices :
for v in *.lin.tgz ;do tar -C /opt/baratinoo7.4_1/config -zxf $v ;done
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.