Are you interested in making your application speak? Converting text to speech within your application is fairly simple with the help of a few libraries. Let’s take a look at what is required to get FreeTTS and MBROLA working within your Java application. Continue reading “Java Text to Speech – the basics”
Making noise
Now that we have a small collection of voices to choose from, see our previous article, let us turn our attention to making some noise from our Java application.
Just to get us going we will select a voice and use it to play a quote. The quote we will use for now is “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” The voice we will use is the 8-bit Kevin. Continue reading “Making noise”
Adding MBROLA speech to FreeTTS Java speech synthesiser
Welcome to the third in the series on adding speech to a Java application. In the previous post, we wrote a small application to list out all the voices available in our Java FreeTTS speech synthesiser.
In this article, we will take a look at increasing the number of voices available to us by adding voices from MBROLA. Continue reading “Adding MBROLA speech to FreeTTS Java speech synthesiser”