A Bash script for Linux and Mac OS X to download/compile/install Festival, MBROLA, and voice files.
- Date: 2016-12-20
- Version: 1.1.0
- Developer: Alberto Pettarin
- License: the MIT License (MIT)
- Contact: click here
$ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pettarin/setup-festival-mbrola/master/setup_festival_mbrola.sh
or use the "Download ZIP" feature of the GitHub repo.
Note: you need to have a compiler
(e.g., gcc on Linux, Xcode command line tools on Mac)
and the libraries required to compile Festival.
If the compilation of Festival fails, please read the error message
printed by its configure or Makefile,
and act accordingly.
Usage:
$ bash setup_festival_mbrola.sh PATH_TO_DEST_DIR ACTION
Actions:
clean delete all DEST_DIR/build_* directories
clean-all delete entire DEST_DIR directory
festival download+compile Festival, install basic English voices
festival-mbrola-voices download+install Festival wrappers for MBROLA
festival-voices download+install all known Festival voices (WARNING: large download)
italian download+install Italian voices for Festival, including wrappers for MBROLA
mbrola download MBROLA binary
mbrola-voices download all known MBROLA voices (WARNING: large download)
Examples:
$ bash setup_festival_mbrola.sh ~/st festival
$ bash setup_festival_mbrola.sh ~/st mbrola
$ bash setup_festival_mbrola.sh ~/st festival-mbrola-voices
$ bash setup_festival_mbrola.sh ~/st italian
$ bash setup_festival_mbrola.sh ~/st festival-voices # WARNING: large download
$ bash setup_festival_mbrola.sh ~/st mbrola-voices # WARNING: large download
$ bash setup_festival_mbrola.sh ~/st clean
$ bash setup_festival_mbrola.sh ~/st clean-allFor example, if you want to install Festival, MBROLA, and the Festival wrappers for MBROLA voices:
$ mkdir ~/speechtools
$ cd ~/speechtools
$ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pettarin/setup-festival-mbrola/master/setup_festival_mbrola.sh
$ bash setup_festival_mbrola.sh st festival
$ bash setup_festival_mbrola.sh st mbrola
$ bash setup_festival_mbrola.sh st festival-mbrola-voices
$ export PATH=`pwd`/st/build_festival/festival/bin:$PATH
$ export PATH=`pwd`/st/build_mbrola:$PATH
$ echo "Hello world! This is the US 1 MBROLA American English voice." | text2wave -eval "(voice_us1_mbrola)" -o /tmp/out.us1_mbrola.wavThe scripts and patches in this repository are released under the terms of the MIT License.
They should be used for research and/or personal purposes only, and according to the licensing terms of Festival, MBROLA, and their voice files.