This is not as easy as espeak with English… and it looks like Japanes is not as easy as English. However here is what I had done:<\/p>\n
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found the right commands <\/a> Here is my version modified version of the script: female voice I use Geany text editor in Gnome to modify text files (it is very important that the encoding is set the EUC-JP or you get this error: WARNING: text2mecab() in text2mecab.c: Wrong character.) file and I configured a command in Geany to call the script, the only thing I need to do it to type something in Japanese and press F8 for male or F9 for female and it talks.<\/p>\n To install the Japanese keyboard in Ubuntu\/Mint you need to go to\u00a0Administration->Language Support and install Japanese and set input\u00a0method to IBus (on mint you also need to install ibus). Under System->Keyboard Input Methods you will need to configure the short cut and add Japanese to the list. There are\u00a0YouTube videos and lots of forum post that\u00a0explain\u00a0this in great detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is not as easy as espeak with English… and it looks like Japanes is not as easy as English. However here is what I had done: download http:\/\/packages.debian.org\/wheezy\/open-jtalk libhtsengine1_1.06-1_amd64.deb open-jtalk-mecab-naist-jdic_1.05-1_all.deb open-jtalk_1.05-1_amd64.deb hts-voice-nitech-jp-atr503-m001_1.04-1_all.deb hts-voice-mei_1.1+dfsg-1_all.deb found the right commands I found a script to use open_jtalk on this page\u00a0http:\/\/d.hatena.ne.jp\/hecomi\/20120221\/1329838707 Here is my version modified version … Continue reading Japanese speech output with open_jtalk<\/span>
\nI found a script to use open_jtalk on this page\u00a0http:\/\/d.hatena.ne.jp\/hecomi\/20120221\/1329838707<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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\n~\/bin\/jspeak.sh
\n
\n#\/bin\/sh
\ncase \"$1\" in
\n1) echo \"mei_angry\"
\n VOICE=\/usr\/share\/hts-voice\/mei_angry
\n ;;
\n2) echo \"mei_bashful\"
\n VOICE=\/usr\/share\/hts-voice\/mei_bashful
\n ;;
\n3) echo \"mei_happy\"
\n\tVOICE=\/usr\/share\/hts-voice\/mei_happy
\n ;;
\n4)\techo \"mei_normal\"
\n\tVOICE=\/usr\/share\/hts-voice\/mei_normal
\n\t;;
\n5)\techo \"mei_sad\"
\n\tVOICE=\/usr\/share\/hts-voice\/mei_sad
\n\t;;
\n*)\techo \"nitech-jp-atr503-m001\"
\n\tVOICE=\/usr\/share\/hts-voice\/nitech-jp-atr503-m001
\n\t;;
\nesac
\nopen_jtalk $2 \\
\n-td $VOICE\/tree-dur.inf \\
\n-tf $VOICE\/tree-lf0.inf \\
\n-tm $VOICE\/tree-mgc.inf \\
\n-md $VOICE\/dur.pdf \\
\n-mf $VOICE\/lf0.pdf \\
\n-mm $VOICE\/mgc.pdf \\
\n-df $VOICE\/lf0.win1 \\
\n-df $VOICE\/lf0.win2 \\
\n-df $VOICE\/lf0.win3 \\
\n-dm $VOICE\/mgc.win1 \\
\n-dm $VOICE\/mgc.win2 \\
\n-dm $VOICE\/mgc.win3 \\
\n-ef $VOICE\/tree-gv-lf0.inf \\
\n-em $VOICE\/tree-gv-mgc.inf \\
\n-cf $VOICE\/gv-lf0.pdf \\
\n-cm $VOICE\/gv-mgc.pdf \\
\n-k $VOICE\/gv-switch.inf \\
\n-x \/var\/lib\/mecab\/dic\/open-jtalk\/naist-jdic\/ \\
\n-s 48000 \\
\n-p 240 \\
\n-a 0.58 \\
\n-u 0.5 \\
\n-jm 0.7 \\
\n-jf 0.5 \\
\n-l \\
\n-z 48000 \\
\n-ow ~\/jpout.wav \\
\n-ot ~\/jpout.log
\nplay ~\/jpout.wav --norm
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n$ ~\/bin\/jpspeak.sh 2 jp.txt
\nmale voice
\n$ ~\/bin\/jpspeak.sh 0 jp.txt<\/p>\n