Ubuntu – How to install more voices to Espeak

espeaktext to speech

Could you please help me to install voices from here, I read the manual But I don't know how can 'Get the en1'.

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Download: http://www.tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/bin/pclinux/mbr301h.zip

Copy text to run in terminal line by line:

cd Downloads
unzip mbr301h.zip
sudo cp mbrola-linux-i386 /usr/bin/mbrola

Download: http://www.tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/dba/en1/en1-980910.zip

Copy text to run in terminal line by line:

unzip en1-980910.zip
cp en1/en1 /usr/share/mbrola/en1

Now run espeak, with options
```
espeak -v mb-en1 "Hello world"
```
Nice, but it seems he is reading too fast, try:
```
espeak -v mb-en1 -s 120 "Hello world"
```

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Ubuntu – Wine: How to use SAPI 5 voices for TTS application “Balabolka”

I did not find any way (currently) to make the program work with SAPI 4/5 voices, but you can work with some of Microsoft Speech Platform voices.

Create 32-bit Wine Prefix:

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/prefix32" WINEARCH=win32 wine wineboot

Install Balabolka:

cd "$HOME/prefix32/drive_c/Program Files/"
wget http://balabolka.site/balabolka_portable.zip
unzip balabolka_portable.zip

Test if program works:

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/prefix32" wine "$HOME/prefix32/drive_c/Program Files/Balabolka/balabolka.exe"

Install Microsoft Speech Platform voice files (specifically x86 Package and Runtime Languages), I will choose ZiraPro, however you can install other voice files:

wget https://download.microsoft.com/download/A/6/4/A64012D6-D56F-4E58-85E3-531E56ABC0E6/x86_SpeechPlatformRuntime/SpeechPlatformRuntime.msi
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/prefix32" wine msiexec /i SpeechPlatformRuntime.msi

wget https://download.microsoft.com/download/4/0/D/40D6347A-AFA5-417D-A9BB-173D937BEED4/MSSpeech_TTS_en-US_ZiraPro.msi
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/prefix32" wine msiexec /i MSSpeech_TTS_en-US_ZiraPro.msi

Install winetricks:
```
sudo apt install winetricks
```

Install msxml6:

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/prefix32" winetricks msxml6

Check if this program works. (Repeat step 3 and choose Microsoft Speech Platform Tab in the program)

Hope this helps...

P.S. To install other voice files, go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27224, download and then install with:

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/prefix32" wine msiexec /i <filename of the downloaded package>

Source:

How do I create a 32-bit WINE prefix?

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=34389

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