https://github.com/linuxscout/festival-tts-arabic-voices
Arabic voices for Festival TTS
https://github.com/linuxscout/festival-tts-arabic-voices
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Arabic voices for Festival TTS
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/linuxscout/festival-tts-arabic-voices
- Owner: linuxscout
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2020-06-15T18:19:04.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-08-02T19:43:54.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2023-06-05T13:54:53.289Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Language: Scheme
- Size: 10.6 MB
- Stars: 54
- Watchers: 7
- Forks: 6
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: ChangeLog.txt
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Arabic voices for Festival TTS
HTS Arabic voice for Festival TTS: is an arabic voice trained by [HTS technologie](http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/) to work on [Festival TTS system](http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/onlinedemo.html).
The voice is HMM trained on [Nawar Arabic Speech Corpus.](http://en.arabicspeechcorpus.com/)
Features | value
---------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Authors | [Authors.md](https://github.com/linuxscout/festival-tts-arabic-voices/blob/master/AUTHORS.md)
Release | 1.0
License |[GPL](https://github.com/linuxscout/festival-tts-arabic-voices/master/LICENSE)
Tracker |[linuxscout/festival-tts-arabic-voices/Issues](https://github.com/linuxscout/festival-tts-arabic-voices/issues)
Source |[Github](http://github.com/linuxscout/festival-tts-arabic-voices)
## Samples
- [المثال الأول](https://soundcloud.com/linuxscout/arabic-voice-for-festival-text-to-speech-system)
- [المثال الثاني](https://soundcloud.com/linuxscout/arabic-voice-for-festival-text-to-speech-system-1)
- [المثال الثالث](https://soundcloud.com/linuxscout/arabic-voice-for-festival-text-to-speech-system-2)
### Demo online
You can test the voice with diacritics on:
[http://ar.arabicspeechcorpus.com/](http://ar.arabicspeechcorpus.com/)
## Setup
### Debian/Ubuntu Linux
1. Install necessary packages:
```
sudo apt-get install festival
sudo apt-get install htsengine
```
You can install Festival from pakcage manager from your linux distribution. Festival exists on Windows also.
You can test festival by
```
$festival
$festival>(voice.list)
```
2. Clone festival-tts-arabic-voices project from GitHub:
```
git clone https://github.com/linuxscout/festival-tts-arabic-voices.git
```
3. Install voice:
```
cd festival-tts-arabic-voices
make install
```
### Install server under Docker
[A Docker image for a relatively light-weight full Arabic speech synthesis system](https://github.com/nawarhalabi/festival-tts-arabic-voices-docker)
## Usage
```
$echo "السلام عليكم " |festival --tts --language arabic
```
or
```
echo "السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ" | text2wave -eval "(voice_ara_norm_ziad_hts)" -o /tmp/out.ar_ziad.w
```
## Diacritizer
In order to improve arabic Text to Speech, we propose to use a diacritizer. Arabic text comes usaully without short vowels, for this reason, we need to add short vowels to it, this process is called diacritizion.
The Idea is to use diacritizer as a wraper, it take text, diacritize it, before passing by the TTS system.
We will use [Mishkal: open source Arabic text diacritizer](http://tahadz.com/mishkal); Mishkal is written by Python langaue, it's open source. it has console, desktop and web interfaces.
We will use i as console command.
To install it, download it from [http://mishkal.sourceforge.net](http://mishkal.sourceforge.net), in many packaging versions for your distribution, or get it from github.
```
$ git clone https://github.com/linuxscout/mishkal.git
```
copy the files into a directory, I choose here to put it in my home user directory
```
/home/me/mishkal-master/
```
You need to install requirments
```
pip install /home/me/mishkal-master/requirements.txt
```
You can test it by python 2.7 or python3
To test it with text
```
$python mishkal-master/bin/mishkal-console.py "السلام عليكم"
السِّلَام عَلَيْكُمْ
```
Also, You can run it as web server, this option allow you to run it like the online website
```
$python mishkal-master/interfaces/web/mishkal-webserver.py
serving on 0.0.0.0:8080 view at http://127.0.0.1:8080
```
Then, run your browser on URL : [http://127.0.0.1:8080](http://127.0.0.1:8080)
The webserver provide an API, to be used for developement of other apps.
## Integration
Now, we can proceed to integrate Diacritizer with TTS.
First, we test Festival TTS with Mishkal by using pipe
```
$mishkal "مرحبا أهلا بكم" |text2wave -eval "(voice_ara_norm_ziad_hts)" -o /tmp/out.ar_ziad.wav
$play /tmp/out.ar_ziad.wav
```
## Similar Projects
* [espeak-ng ](http://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng) espeak-ng TTS based on formant, it supports Arabic since 1.49 version
* [Abdullah Alrajeh](https://github.com/asrajeh/arabic-tts) Abdullah Alrajeh Arabic TTS for Festival and Flite
* [Arabic Tacotron TTS by Youssef Sharief ](https://github.com/youssefsharief/arabic-tacotron-tts)
* [Voice on Mozilla](voice.mozilla.org)
## Tutorials
#### Configure Screen reader
https://linuxscout.gitbooks.io/arabic-text-to-speech-integration/content/
#### Add a shortcut for festival TTS to read selection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uKTamXonPs