[misterhouse-users] Re: AT&T NaturalVoice on Linux and MrHouse

[Paul W. <pa...@wi...>]

Here is another way to integrate Mr House and Natural Voices on Linux.

In mh.ini set:
voice_text=attunix
voice_text_attunix=/usr/local/naturalvoices/ATTNaturalVoices/TTS1.4/Desktop/bin/TTSStandalonePlayerDT 
-v0 -data /usr/local/naturalvoices/ATTNaturalVoices/TTS1.4/Desktop/data

Change the path to match where you have installed Natural Voices.
The at line 115 in lib/Voice_Text.pm add:

$speak_pgm = $main::config_parms{voice_text_attunix}  if $speak_engine 
eq 'attunix';

and at line 222 add:
 elsif ($speak_engine =~/attunix/i) {
            print "About to send data to natural voices - $parms{text}";
            my $pid=fork;
            my $speaktext=$parms{text};
            if ($pid == 0)
            {
               open(VOICE,"|$speak_pgm");
               print VOICE $speaktext;
               close(VOICE);
               exit 0;
            }
    }

This resolves the issue of Mr House pausing as the voice output is 
performed in a second thread, however it can take Natural Voices a while 
to start up, so I am thinking of creating a simple voice server that 
will listen on a network socket.

Has any one had any success with the JSAPI examples included with 
Natural Voices?  They seem to have a bug where no synthesizers can be found.

Regards,
   Paul Wilkinson