Voxygen TTS

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/

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.

• Arabic
• English (UK )
• French (France )
• Italian
• Spanish ( Spain )

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

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.

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.