Is the SVOX Pico TTS not working?

[Billy D]

Hello, I tried using the SVOX Pico TTS as the voices are great, but when I run jasper I get this error

ERROR:root:Error occured!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pi/jasper/jasper.py", line 143, in <module>
    app = Jasper()
  File "/home/pi/jasper/jasper.py", line 102, in __init__
    tts_engine_class = tts.get_engine_by_slug(tts_engine_slug)
  File "/home/pi/jasper/client/tts.py", line 665, in get_engine_by_slug
    "missing dependencies, etc.)") % slug)
ValueError: TTS engine 'pico-tts' is not available (due to missing dependencies, etc.)

I install it by doing

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libttspico-utils

Does anyone know why?

Thanks

 

[Billy D]

Tried using ivona got this

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

ERROR:root:Error occured!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pi/jasper/jasper.py", line 143, in <module>
    app = Jasper()

  File "/home/pi/jasper/jasper.py", line 105, in __init__
    self.mic = Mic(tts_engine_class.get_instance(),
  File "/home/pi/jasper/client/tts.py", line 58, in get_instance
    instance = cls(**config)
  File "/home/pi/jasper/client/tts.py", line 583, in __init__
    self._pyvonavoice = pyvona.Voice(access_key, secret_key)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyvona.py", line 234, in __init__
    pygame.mixer.init()
error: No available audio device

It must be something im doing wrong then?? any ideas?

[G10DRAS]

Test the pico2wave from command line:

pico2wave -l en-GB -w test.wav "it works! "

aplay test.wav

If above will not work, which indicate below didn't work either...

sudo apt-get install libttspico-utils

You need to compile the code for libttspico-utils

[G10DRAS]

Here is the link........

Installing Pico TTS

[Billy D]

Going through the link you provided, I get up to

mkdir pico_build
cd pico_build
apt-get source libttspico-utils

now when i do

apt-get source libttspico-utils

I get the following errors

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
NOTICE: 'libttspico-utils' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at:
git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/svox.git
Need to get 21.6 MB of source archives.
Err http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/archive.raspbian.org/archive/raspbian/ wheezy/non-free svox 1.0+git20110131-2 (dsc)
  Could not open file svox_1.0+git20110131-2.dsc - open (13: Permission denied) [IP: 163.1.221.67 80]
Err http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/archive.raspbian.org/archive/raspbian/ wheezy/non-free svox 1.0+git20110131-2 (tar)
  Could not open file svox_1.0+git20110131.orig.tar.gz - open (13: Permission denied) [IP: 163.1.160.163 80]
Err http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/archive.raspbian.org/archive/raspbian/ wheezy/non-free svox 1.0+git20110131-2 (diff)
  Could not open file svox_1.0+git20110131-2.debian.tar.gz - open (13: Permission denied) [IP: 163.1.221.67 80]
Failed to fetch http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/archive.raspbian.org/archive/raspbian/pool/non-free/s/svox/svox_1.0+git20110131-2.dsc  Could not open file svox_1.0+git20110131-2.dsc - open (13: Permission denied) [IP: 163.1.221.67 80]
Failed to fetch http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/archive.raspbian.org/archive/raspbian/pool/non-free/s/svox/svox_1.0+git20110131.orig.tar.gz  Could not open file svox_1.0+git20110131.orig.tar.gz - open (13: Permission denied) [IP: 163.1.160.163 80]
Failed to fetch http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/archive.raspbian.org/archive/raspbian/pool/non-free/s/svox/svox_1.0+git20110131-2.debian.tar.gz  Could not open file svox_1.0+git20110131-2.debian.tar.gz - open (13: Permission denied) [IP: 163.1.221.67 80]
E: Failed to fetch some archives.

would you know why?

[G10DRAS]

Try

sudo apt-get source libttspico-utils

[Billy D]

Cool!! got it working thanks for your help. Once final question, there was no docs on how to select a voice. I want to use victoria voice on this page https://svoxmobilevoices.wordpress.com/demos/ how would i do that? Would it be like the others:

tts_engine: pico-tts
voice: 'Victoria'

thanks

[G10DRAS]

I Love Victoria and Misaki !!!
But there is no option to change voice. You can change Language though.

# Universal default is en_US
# Available are en-US, en-GB, fr-FR, de-DE, es-ES, it-IT
tts_engine: pico-tts
pico-tts:
  language: 'en-GB'

[Billy D]

Ah I see, thats a shame they are very good voices.

[G10DRAS]

Those voices are available for Android plateform, and not free.
On the other hand if you dig in to the picotts code you will see everything is just hardcoded,
and pico engine is marely a player of the voice database.
Hack the code and install new voices, I think you will be able to get them working.