java speech Synthesizer

[chaminga]

Thank u sir,
I'ii try that.
I'm really sry for the bother u.

regards ,
Chaminga

[JosAH]

Thank u sir,
I'ii try that.
I'm really sry for the bother u.

regards ,
Chaminga

You're not bothering me at all; the only thing that bothers me (not really ;-) is that the FreeTTS API works fine but the JSAPI interface on top of it doesn't work at all; the cheap way out is easy: don't use the JSAPI. I think that project is stone dead which isn't an incentive to explore any further ...

kind regards,

Jos

[chaminga]

import javax.speech.*;
import javax.speech.synthesis.*;
import java.util.*;

public class TellTime {

public static void main(String[] args) {

try {
Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
String sayTime = "Its " +
calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR) + " " +
calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE) + " " +
(calendar.get(Calendar.AM_PM)== 0 ? "AM" : "PM");

Synthesizer synth = Central.createSynthesizer(null);
synth.allocate();
synth.resume();

synth.speakPlainText(sayTime,null);

synth.waitEngineState(Synthesizer.QUEUE_EMPTY);
synth.deallocate();

} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}




I used this simple code. I put all freetts-1.2 jar files to my classpath and put speech.properties file to java home. But i got this exception.


System property "mbrola.base" is undefined. Will not use MBROLA voices.
Jul 9, 2010 3:42:29 PM com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice allocate
SEVERE: Can't load voice java.util.zip.ZipException: ZipFile closed
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: java.util.zip.ZipException: ZipFile closed
at com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice.allocate(Voice.java:3 51)
at com.sun.speech.freetts.jsapi.FreeTTSSynthesizer.se tCurrentVoice(FreeTTSSynthesizer.java:122)
at com.sun.speech.freetts.jsapi.FreeTTSSynthesizer.ha ndleAllocate(FreeTTSSynthesizer.java:85)
at com.sun.speech.engine.BaseEngine.allocate(BaseEngi ne.java:219)
at TellTime.main(TellTime.java:18)
Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: ZipFile closed
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.ensureOpenOrZipException(Zip File.java:413)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.access$1100(ZipFile.java:29)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile$ZipFileInputStream.read(ZipF ile.java:445)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile$1.fill(ZipFile.java:230)
at java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream.read(InflaterInp utStream.java:141)
at java.io.FilterInputStream.read(FilterInputStream.j ava:116)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.readBytes(StreamDecoder.j ava:264)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.implRead(StreamDecoder.ja va:306)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.read(StreamDecoder.java:1 58)
at java.io.InputStreamReader.read(InputStreamReader.j ava:167)
at java.io.BufferedReader.fill(BufferedReader.java:13 6)
at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.jav a:299)
at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.jav a:362)
at com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.PronounceableFSM.load Text(PronounceableFSM.java:91)
at com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.PronounceableFSM.<ini t>(PronounceableFSM.java:60)
at com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.PrefixFSM.<init>(Pref ixFSM.java:26)
at com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.CMUVoice.setupUtteran ceProcessors(CMUVoice.java:116)
at com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.CMUVoice.loader(CMUVo ice.java:77)
at com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice.allocate(Voice.java:3 48)
... 4 more





May i know the reason for this.

Regards,
Chaminga.

[JosAH]

May i know the reason for this.

Did you try my example (see reply #18); I know it runs and you can work from that point on ...

kind regards,

Jos

[chaminga]

yes sir.

I tried that one. But it also give same error.

System property "mbrola.base" is undefined. Will not use MBROLA voices.
Jul 9, 2010 4:19:22 PM com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice allocate
SEVERE: Can't load voice java.util.zip.ZipException: ZipFile closed
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: java.util.zip.ZipException: ZipFile closed
at com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice.allocate(Voice.java:3 51)
at T.main(T.java:21)
Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: ZipFile closed
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.ensureOpenOrZipException(Zip File.java:413)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.access$1100(ZipFile.java:29)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile$ZipFileInputStream.read(ZipF ile.java:445)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile$1.fill(ZipFile.java:230)
at java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream.read(InflaterInp utStream.java:141)
at java.io.FilterInputStream.read(FilterInputStream.j ava:116)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.readBytes(StreamDecoder.j ava:264)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.implRead(StreamDecoder.ja va:306)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.read(StreamDecoder.java:1 58)
at java.io.InputStreamReader.read(InputStreamReader.j ava:167)
at java.io.BufferedReader.fill(BufferedReader.java:13 6)
at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.jav a:299)
at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.jav a:362)
at com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.PronounceableFSM.load Text(PronounceableFSM.java:91)
at com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.PronounceableFSM.<ini t>(PronounceableFSM.java:60)
at com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.PrefixFSM.<init>(Pref ixFSM.java:26)
at com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.CMUVoice.setupUtteran ceProcessors(CMUVoice.java:116)
at com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.CMUVoice.loader(CMUVo ice.java:77)
at com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice.allocate(Voice.java:3 48)
... 1 more

:( :(



regards,
chaminga

[JosAH]

I tried that one. But it also give same error.

There must be something wrong in your .jar file visibility then because the example works for me: I use Java 1.6 and I have the following nine files in my JRE\lib\ext directory (they are always visible there):

03/09/2009  01:39 PM           894,905 cmudict04.jar
03/09/2009  01:40 PM           599,429 cmulex.jar
03/09/2009  01:39 PM             1,231 cmutimelex.jar
03/09/2009  01:39 PM         1,723,774 cmu_time_awb.jar
03/09/2009  01:39 PM         4,899,359 cmu_us_kal.jar
03/09/2009  01:40 PM           866,598 en_us.jar
03/09/2009  01:39 PM           208,668 freetts.jar
10/01/2003  11:51 AM            51,811 jsapi.jar
03/09/2009  01:39 PM            11,926 mbrola.jar

My example code runs with that configuration. Try again.

kind regards,

Jos

[karthi]

Thanks Jos ur posts really helped me out thanks alot:)

[JosAH]

Thanks Jos ur posts really helped me out thanks alot:)

You're welcome and if you manage to figure out how those 'mbrola' voices work feel free to post here because all my attempts sofar have failed; I think it has to do with over the edge classpath fiddling in the jar files (I haven't looked into them yet); they brag about it in their documentation but I suspect the fiddling has turned against them/us.

kind regards,

Jos

[Laxman Rana]

M getting the same Error @ synth.allocate();

error:-
java.lang.NullPointerException


can any one help me out

[vaibhavjavageek]

import javax.speech.*;
import javax.speech.synthesis.*;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class speechtotextdemo {
public static void main(String args[]) {
try {
Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
// Create a synthesizer for English
SynthesizerModeDesc desc = new SynthesizerModeDesc(null,"general", Locale.US,null,null);
Synthesizer synthesizer = Central.createSynthesizer(desc);

// Get it ready to speak
synthesizer.allocate();
synthesizer.resume();

// Speak the "any" string
System.out.println("enter the string to be pronounced");
String str = s.nextLine();
synthesizer.speakPlainText(str, null);

// Wait till speaking is done
synthesizer.waitEngineState(Synthesizer.QUEUE_EMPT Y);

// Clean up
synthesizer.deallocate();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}


perfectly working code. Now plz anyone who could plz tell me how code i generate different kinda voices.???