MBROLA voices with FreeTTS - Windows

Question

Using MBROLA voices in a Java program with FreeTTS...

I am working on a simple text-to-speech program in Java. I have decided to use FreeTT

Answer 1

Please find working example from here:

https://github.com/sunrise-projects/sphinx4/tree/glass

package com.sunriseprojects.freetts.demo;

import java.beans.PropertyVetoException;
import java.util.Locale;

import javax.speech.AudioException;
import javax.speech.Central;
import javax.speech.EngineException;
import javax.speech.EngineStateError;
import javax.speech.synthesis.Synthesizer;
import javax.speech.synthesis.SynthesizerModeDesc;
import javax.speech.synthesis.Voice;

public class SpeechUtils {
	SynthesizerModeDesc desc;
	Synthesizer synthesizer;
	Voice voice;

	public void init(String voiceName) throws EngineException, AudioException,
			EngineStateError, PropertyVetoException {
		if (desc == null) {
			//default
//			System.setProperty("freetts.voices",
//					"com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.cmu_us_kal.KevinVoiceDirectory");
			
			//have to be setup
			System.setProperty("freetts.voices",
					"de.dfki.lt.freetts.en.us.MbrolaVoiceDirectory");
			desc = new SynthesizerModeDesc(Locale.US);
			Central.registerEngineCentral("com.sun.speech.freetts.jsapi.FreeTTSEngineCentral");
			synthesizer = Central.createSynthesizer(desc);
			synthesizer.allocate();
			synthesizer.resume();
			SynthesizerModeDesc smd = (SynthesizerModeDesc) synthesizer
					.getEngineModeDesc();
			Voice[] voices = smd.getVoices();
			Voice voice = null;
			for (int i = 0; i < voices.length; i++) {
				if (voices[i].getName().equals(voiceName)) {
					voice = voices[i];
					break;
				}
			}
			synthesizer.getSynthesizerProperties().setVoice(voice);
		}
	}

	public void terminate() throws EngineException, EngineStateError {
		synthesizer.deallocate();
	}

	public void doSpeak(String speakText) throws EngineException,
			AudioException, IllegalArgumentException, InterruptedException {
		synthesizer.speakPlainText(speakText, null);
		synthesizer.waitEngineState(Synthesizer.QUEUE_EMPTY);
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		System.setProperty("mbrola.base", "C:\\lnx1\\home\\ggon\\git-projects\\mbrola");
		SpeechUtils su = new SpeechUtils();
		
		//have to be setup on your env
		su.init("mbrola_us1");
		
		//default
		//su.init("kevin16");	
		//su.init("kevin");
		//su.doSpeak("Hello world!");
		su.doSpeak(SAMPLE);
		su.terminate();
	}
	
	final static String SAMPLE = "Wiki said, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is an American professional boxer. He is currently undefeated as a professional and is a five-division world champion, having won ten world titles and the lineal championship in four different weight classes";
}