setup CereVoice with Jutoh

[Matthieu Infoslibres]

Hello,

With Jutoh Version 3.19.3, i try to use "Text-to-speech configuration" with CereVoice.

I buy a voice on CereVoice website.

Please, how to use it with Jutoh ? 

(on Mac OS Sequoai 15)

On jutoh, I have filled in the path to the cerevoice program : 

/Library/Speech/Synthesizers/CereVoice6.SpeechSynthesizer/Contents/MacOS/CereVoice6

After i add a voice : 

Name : Helene

Voice file : /Library/Speech/Voices/CereVoice6_mas.SpeechVoice/Contents/Resourcestts.voice

Licence : /Library/Speech/Voices/CereVoice6_mas.SpeechVoice/Contents/Resourceslicense.lic

But Text-to-speech don't work.

Is anybody can help me please ?

Thank you.

[Julian Smart]

Hi Matthieu,

Jutoh can (theoretically) use two methods with CereVoice - directly drive it, or use it via the Apple Speech Synthesis Manager.

For the first method, Jutoh uses a command-line program 'cerevoice' (adapted from a CereVoice sample) to communicate with CereVoice, so this has to be downloaded from the Jutoh download page and Jutoh made aware of it via Preferences/Speech. Unfortunately I haven't kept up with versions of CereVoice after 3, so it won't work with later ones. There is an annual subscription to sign up for the SDK with the ability to compile the samples (and 'cerevoice' tool). Obviously I'd like to avoid doing that for something that is only likely to be used by maybe one or two users and I haven't had any enquiries about it for several years.

Perhaps you could persuade them to make the binary 'cerevoice' tool available on their web site, which is just a question of them compiling the simple TTS sample that takes text and speaks it, if licensed voices are available.

Meanwhile, CereVoice should still work with Jutoh's Apple Speech Synthesis Manager support, albeit with slightly less functionality. Jutoh actually invokes the 'say' command line tool which should be built into macOS - you can try using that to test it out, and when using Jutoh, check the Log window in case it's giving errors if it can't find 'say'. I can't remember the specifics of configuring CereVoice to work with Apple Speech Synthesis Manager but it should be independent of Jutoh. Sorry not to be very helpful but perhaps others have some experience with this; or you could contact CereVoice about making it work on Mac.

Regards,

Julian

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