README.md

Tamil-TTS-install-script

Author : T Shrinivasan [email protected]

This is a script to install the Tamil text to Speech System provided by IIT Madras and SSN College of Engineering at https://www.iitm.ac.in/donlab/tts/voices.php

System requirements:

1. Ubuntu 16.04
2. Ubuntu 18.04

Will it work on Windows?

No.

How to Install

git clone https://github.com/tshrinivasan/tamil-tts-install.git
cd tamil-tts-install
./tamil-tts.sh --clean --setup

How to convert tamil text to .wav

cd tamil-tts-install
./tamil-tts.sh --run --source tamil-text.txt

This will generate 'tamil-text.wav' file

How to convert tamil text to .mp3

cd tamil-tts-install
./tamil-tts.sh --run --gen-mp3 --source tamil-text.txt

This will generate 'tamil-text.mp3' file

howto set your own HTKUSER and HTKPASSWORD in tamil-tts.sh

Register here http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/download.shtml and get a username and password, replace your own username and passward in HTKUSER and HTKPASSWORD