[SOLVED] using mbrola with espeak

fakie_flip · 04-18-2012, 09:32 PM

What is the correct way to use mbrola, espeak, and aplay together? I have followed all the directions from documentation given. I downloaded an mbrola binary for linux. I put mbrola voices in the espeak-data directory. Now when I attempt this, I am getting errors.

Code:

bull•~» espeak -v mb-us1 -a 100 -p 50 -s 160 "i haven't found any documentation worth a crap yet" | mbrola "/usr/share/espeak-data/mbrola/us1" -- | aplay
Binary number format error
You are probably using a version of /usr/share/espeak-data/mbrola/us1 incompatible
with your machine architecture.
Get the right one from the MBROLA project homepage :
   http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis
aplay: playback:2483: read error
bull•~»

Satyaveer Arya · 04-20-2012, 10:36 AM

Will it be helpful for you, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1423702 ?

fakie_flip · 04-21-2012, 05:40 PM

I figured this one out.

For my system, /usr/share/doc/espeak-1.46.02/html/mbrola.html

says

Quote:

From eSpeak version 1.44 onwards, eSpeak calls the mbrola program directly, rather than passing phoneme data to it using a pipe.

Which means you do not need to pipe espeak output to mbrola anymore. You can simply do

Code:

espeak -v mb-en1 "Hello world"