Is there any text to speech component for lazarus

[Kushal]

i would like to create an application with text to speech capability(linux) ...

in delphi i use microsoft speech SDK 5.1 .... 

im not able to find any way in lazarus .. if there is any please let me know....

[BigChimp]

I'd suggest you start searching the wiki. The answer is there.

Good luck.

(Oh and you might try searching the forum which will probably bring up the post that lead to the wiki page etc.)

Finally, please specify OS and Lazarus version next time in case that matters.

Thanks.

[theo]

In Linux, you can use espeak mbrola and aplay via TProcess

My CommandLine looks like this:

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AProcess.CommandLine := '/usr/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/espeak -v mb-de2 -f '+FileName+' | mbrola -e /usr/share/mbrola/de3/de3 - - | aplay -r19500 -fS16"';
Where FileName ist the UTF8 Text File.
I don't know much more about it, but this speaks here.  ;-)

[Carver413]

I would choose flite or festival over espeak they sound better

[theo]

I would choose flite or festival over espeak they sound better

It depends on the language you need. Afair, I could not find a german voice for festival

[wjackson153]

In Linux, you can use espeak mbrola and aplay via TProcess

My CommandLine looks like this:

Aprocess.CommandLine.

CommandLine is depreciated, might I sugguest using the new method

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   AProcess := TProcess.Create(nil);
   AProcess.Executable := '/bin/sh'; // depending on your linux distro path may differ
   Aprocess.Parameters.Add('-c');
   Aprocess.Parameters.add('/usr/bin/espeak -v mb-de2 -f' + FileName
  + ' | mbrola -e /usr/share mbrola  de3/de3 - - | aplay -r19500 -fS16');

I have covered this in detail on the wiki below the original topic

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Executing_External_Programs#A_Simple_Example

[Chronos]

And what about some multiplatform pascal native component? I remember some game with robotic text to speech even on old 8-bit computer.

[Carver413]

I would choose flite or festival over espeak they sound better

It depends on the language you need. Afair, I could not find a german voice for festival

the Mary TTS  might have some german voices. I'm not using it right now as it was a bit buggy last time I played with it but  that could be fixed by now

[avra]

espeak samples can be found here:
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,17592.msg97318.html#msg97318

[BigChimp]

Updated http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/SAPI to link to http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Linux_Programming_Tips#Perform_text-to-speech_.28TTS.29_or_how_to_let_my_computer_speak

Code snippets etc welcome on
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Linux_Programming_Tips#Perform_text-to-speech_.28TTS.29_or_how_to_let_my_computer_speak

[jwdietrich]

With regard to Mac OS X, this topic has been discussed at http://lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,18903.0.html.