Guglina TTS "EN"

Guglina TTS, special edition: in English (guglinatts-en), is a voice synthesizer originally designed for Brazilian Portuguese. Uses the Google Translate text-to-speech API. Read screens for the visually impaired. Transforms text into audio, allowing blind or low-vision people to access content displayed on the screen. Although the main target audience for text-to-speech conversion systems - such as Guglina TTS EN - is people with visual impairment, this type of program can be used by people with dyslexia and other reading disabilities, people with severe as well as by pre-literate children. In addition to being an assistive technology tool, voice synthesizers can still have educational and entertainment applications.
It is under the aegis of the license:

GPLv3

Maintainer: Felipe Facundes

Site: https://brasiltts.wordpress.com/

Blog: https://brasiltts.blogspot.com/

E-Mail: felipe.facundes@gmail.com

Telegram: https://t.me/comandos_linux

Installation:

git clone https://github.com/felipefacundes/guglinatts-en
cd guglinatts-en

• Run command:

chmod +x INSTALL.sh
yes s | sh INSTALL.sh

Or manually:

sudo cp guglinatts-en-generic.conf /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/
sudo cp speechd.conf /etc/speech-dispatcher/
sudo cp googletts* /bin/
sudo chmod +x /bin/googletts*

Installing Dependencies:

• The Dependencies are:
• espeak-ng
• speech-dispatcher
• orca
• onboard
• xsel
• libnotify
• python2-notify
• perl-libwww
• perl-www-mechanize
• perl-html-tree
• ffmpeg
• sox
• fmt
• lame
• perl-www-curl

• Installation by ArchLinux

sudo pacman -S espeak-ng speech-dispatcher orca onboard ffmpeg xsel libnotify python2-notify perl-libwww perl-www-mechanize perl-html-tree sox fmt lame perl-www-curl

sudo pacman -U svox-pico-bin-1.0+git20130326-8-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

• By Debian and derivatives (Ubuntu...):
• If you do not have pico2wave in the repository.
• You should first convert the packages ".tar.xz" to ".deb"
• Use the alien command to convert
• Then just install with the dpkg command
• Rename the files ".pkg.tar.xz"
• For ".pkg.tar.gz"

fakeroot alien -d "nome".pkg.tar.gz
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Fedora and derivatives: the alien also generates packages ".rpm"

fakeroot alien -r "nome".pkg.tar.gz

Finishing Installation

• Close everything and kill the session:

pkill -9 -u $USER

• Start X and type in the terminal

orca -s

• On the tab: "Voice".
• Configure this way:
• Speech system: Speech Dispatcher
• Speech synthesizer: guglina_en_tts
• Character: guglina_en_tts (en)

If the onboard and orca are not booting together with the system. Include in ~/.xinitrc

onboard --not-show-in=GNOME,GNOME-Classic:GNOME --startup-delay=3.0 &
orca &

• Or

cp /etc/xdg/autostart/onboard-autostart.desktop ~/.config/autostart/
cp /etc/xdg/autostart/orca-autostart.desktop ~/.config/autostart/

Enabling onboard and orca is required, so that programs that have the accessibility feature, such as OKULAR, can work properly. Be sure to turn onboard! ;)

Guglina is an acronym of: Google + Regina. A tribute to Brazilian: Regina Bittar, responsible for Google's voice in Brazil.

Licença: GPLv3