Flite~ 1.0 Speech external for pure data and pure data anywhere
Tim Redfern April 2008
tim-(a)-eclectronics.org
Uses Flite by Alan W Black and Kevin A. Lenzo
Thanks to Gunter Geiger
This external has only been tested on linux and embedded linux,
please let me know if you get it going on Windows or Mac OS.
Flite~ uses flite (festival lite) to synthesize speech in pure data, as it takes ~10% of the time taken to read the speech to synthesize it (on a core duo 2ghz) I have made this external render the speech in a seperate thread so it doesn't interrupt the audio.
There are two ways to use Flite~, either directly streaming to the dac~ or by using the sync output on the 2nd outlet to record the speech to a table or array for reuse. See the help patch.
Download source code for Flite~
Tim Redfern April 2008
tim-(a)-eclectronics.org
Uses Flite by Alan W Black and Kevin A. Lenzo
Thanks to Gunter Geiger
This external has only been tested on linux and embedded linux,
please let me know if you get it going on Windows or Mac OS.
Flite~ uses flite (festival lite) to synthesize speech in pure data, as it takes ~10% of the time taken to read the speech to synthesize it (on a core duo 2ghz) I have made this external render the speech in a seperate thread so it doesn't interrupt the audio.
There are two ways to use Flite~, either directly streaming to the dac~ or by using the sync output on the 2nd outlet to record the speech to a table or array for reuse. See the help patch.
Download source code for Flite~