Problem with mbrola.base

[arshadalisoomro]

while running hellow world example of JSAPI Im facing the message (System property "mbrola.base" is undefined. Will not use MBROLA voices.
) in result no voice is heard please solve this for me

thanx......

[JosAH]

while running hellow world example of JSAPI Im facing the message (System property "mbrola.base" is undefined. Will not use MBROLA voices.
) in result no voice is heard please solve this for me

I never got those mbrola voices operational either; I simply use the freeTTS own voice "kevin16" and I skip the entire JSAPI and use their own API:

import com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice;
import com.sun.speech.freetts.VoiceManager;

public class T {
	
	private static final String VOICENAME= "kevin16";

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		
		Voice voice;
		VoiceManager voiceManager = VoiceManager.getInstance();
	        
		voice = voiceManager.getVoice(VOICENAME);
		voice.allocate();
		voice.speak("hello world");
	}
}

Does this help you a bit?

kind regards,

Jos

[arshadalisoomro]

first of all I thank you ...
your code works but only (Hello world ) is spoken by this

if I want to listen "You are my Friend" in following manner

import com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice;
import com.sun.speech.freetts.VoiceManager;

public class HelloWorld {
	
	private static final String VOICENAME= "kevin16";

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		
		Voice voice;
		VoiceManager voiceManager = VoiceManager.getInstance();
	        
		voice = voiceManager.getVoice(VOICENAME);
		voice.allocate();
		voice.speak("You are my Friend");
	}
}

it does not speak that but only "Hello world".
please help me in this case also.

[JosAH]

first of all I thank you ...
your code works but only (Hello world ) is spoken by this

if I want to listen "You are my Friend" in following manner

[ ... ]

it does not speak that but only "Hello world".
please help me in this case also.

Are you sure you recompiled your code? It works fine for me.

kind regards,

Jos

[arshadalisoomro]

I have no words to explain how much Im Happy today...

Thank you very much this worked in JBuilder 6 the code is working very well

[JosAH]

I have no words to explain how much Im Happy today...

Thank you very much this worked in JBuilder 6 the code is working very well

Good; you're welcome; you forgot to recompile it, right? If you ever manage to get those mbrola voices up and running, please let us know about it.

kind regards,

Jos

[arshadalisoomro]

Hi Dear !
I want to change the age of voice. kindly if you give me some code hint . I need your help in this case also

[JosAH]

Hi Dear !
I want to change the age of voice. kindly if you give me some code hint . I need your help in this case also

I don't know how to change the age of the voice; a voice has the following methods:

public void setVolume(float v)
public void setPitch(float p)
public void setRate(float s) 
public void setStretch(float s)

public float getVolume()
public float getPitch()
public float getRate() 
public float getStretch()

The initial values for those four parameters are 1.0 (volume at its loudest level), 100.0 (frequency of the voice) 150.0 (rate of words per minute) and 1.0 (stretch of the word in its duration. Maybe if you play a bit with those values you can change the 'age' of the voice. Otherwise you have to find yourself another voice instead of "kevin16".

kind regards,

Jos

[techstudent]

after so much of searching finally it speaks!!!!

although, it still displays system property mbrola.base is undefined.is there anyway i can remove that?

[techstudent]

i hadn't remove the mbrola.jar fro my directory,so it showd that warning.now working fine :)

[JosAH]

after so much of searching finally it speaks!!!!

Care to write a summary (i.e. a step by step instruction) how to get those darn mbrola voices operational? The readers, the forum (and I ;-) would be grateful.

kind regards,

Jos

[techstudent]

i just removed that warning that came:mbrola property not set.
i used ur method!

[JosAH]

i just removed that warning that came:mbrola property not set.
i used ur method!

That's not a summary; what files did you download? How and where did you install them? Was there any programming needed? If so, please show the stuff. I know, acting like a teacher/instructor isn't easy and boring but what you have given us now doesn't help much ;-)

kind regards,

Jos

[techstudent]

Setting up MBROLA for FreeTTS

[techstudent]

once again,
I DID NOT DO ANYTHING NEW!!!!i jus used your code here!!!it worked.but it gave a warning : mbrola voices cannot be used.so i removed the mbrola.jar from the directory where this t.java is stored.i'm not using mbrola.

[JosAH]

once again,
I DID NOT DO ANYTHING NEW!!!!i jus used your code here!!!it worked.but it gave a warning : mbrola voices cannot be used.so i removed the mbrola.jar from the directory where this t.java is stored.i'm not using mbrola.

My misunderstanding, sorry about that; I thought you were using those mbrola voices with freetts. I can only use freetts's own voices but for the sake of my sanity I can't get those mbrola voices to do anything. I muffled away that warnng too ...

kind regards,

Jos

[techstudent]

ya,none of the sites i browsed were useful anyway thankyou for the code above, had been searchin for a long time for some way to convert text to speech,my whole project depends on this.

[JosAH]

ya,none of the sites i browsed were useful anyway thankyou for the code above, had been searchin for a long time for some way to convert text to speech,my whole project depends on this.

I really don't know what I have done wrong w.r.t. freeTTS and mbrola but I can't get those voices operational; I never have read anything from anybody having success with those two either. FreeTTS by itself works fine though and (some of) the mbrola package also works (sort of) but those two don't seem to like eachother.

kind regards,

Jos

[UJJAL DHAR]

Problem Solved

[JosAH]

Where is the problem?

An incorrect installation of the freetts.jar file? A classpath problem? All that I know is that the code I posted works.

kind regards,

Jos