TTSynth is a product of Capital Accessibility, LLC A U.S. Corporation Web: http://CapitalAccessibility.Com http://TTSynth.Com TTSynth is a suite of applications which utilize synthetic text to speech (TTS) services on Linux computers. TTSynth incorporates and includes iIBM's preeminent IBM TTS text to speech technology, also known by the trade name ViavoiceR order to provide our customers the highest quality, most requested text to speech voices in TTSynth applications. Use of ibmtts in TTSynth has been licensed by Capital Accessibility, LLC, from the Wizzard Corporation. Viavoice is a registered trademark of the IBM Corporation. TTSynth's component parts are provided under terms of different licenses. Consult the file COPYING for specific details. TTSynth is licensed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In order to provide TTSynth at the best possible price, no individualized user or developer support of any kind is provided for TTSynth by Capital Accessibility, LLC, other than the support resources provided on the TTSynth web page, http://TTSynth.Com. Please do not call, write, or email Capital Accessibility directly concerning compiling, installing, configuring, using, or developing TTSynth or any of its component parts. TTSynth components include, but are not necessarily limited, to the following components and applications: * TTSynthCore -- providing TTS services to other TTSynth components. * TTSynthCore incorporates the ibmtts text to speech engine under a * nonfree, proprietary license from Wizzard Corporation. Consult the file * COPYING for TTSynthCore license terms. * ttsynth-say is a command line application for generating speech from text strings. ttsynth-say can generate speech at the command line and optionally write audio to a file. It is also appropriate for use in scripts. Usage instructions are built in. Type 'ttsynth-say' at the command line to see available options. ttsynth-say is licensed under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL). Consult the file COPYING for additional information. To compile ttsynth_say, first create a symbolic link to /opt/IBM/ibmtts/inc/eci.h in the ttsynth-say directory: ln -sf /opt/IBM/ibmtts/inc/eci.h . then do a 'make' and Copy the resulting binary somewhere in your path. We recommend copying it to /usr/local/bin/. * spk-connect-ttsynth is the Speakup driver for TTSynth and provides * high quality interactive TTS support for users of the kernel-based * Speakup screen reader. It is also licensed under the Lesser GNU Public * LIcense (LGPL). Consult the file COPYING for the license terms * appropriate to spk-connect-ttsynth. To install spk-connect-ttsynth do a * 'make' and Copy the resulting binary somewhere in your path. We recommend copying it to /usr/local/bin/. We also recommend creating a command alias that will be easier to type at the command line for starting spk-connect-ttsynth, for example at the /usr/local/bin prompt, you might type: ln -s spk-connect-ttsynth spt * To use spk-connect-ttsynth after building it, first load Speakup's * software speech driver, perhaps as follows: modprobe speakup_sftsyn Or, simply create an initrd.img file with speakup_sftsyn included. Fedora users can follow the initrd.img instructions in the Speakup Modified Installation HOWTO: http://SpeakupModified.Org/HOWTO_INSTALL.html Once speakup_sftsyn is loaded, you can execute spk-connect-ttsynth. IMPORTANT: Please be sure to use TTSynth only with a recent version of alsa, at least version 1.0.9. Tip: You might wish to add spk-connect-ttsynth to your /etc/rc.local in order to start Speakup with TTSynth at boot time. * gnome-speech-ibmtts provides interactive TTS services to graphical desktop applications such as the LSR and orca screen readers. * gnome-speech-ibmtts is licensed under the Lesser GNU Public LIcense * (LGPL). Consult the file COPYING for additional details. * gnome-speech-ibmtts is provided in Linux distribution standard package * file formats such as rpm and deb. Ubuntu and Debian users will find * gnome-speech-ibmtts through their distribution package repositories. * Fedora users can obtain gnome-speech-ibmtts rpms from * http://SpeakupModified.Org. IMPORTANT: Use of TTSynth requires compatibility libraries for libstdc++ version 2.9.6 or 2.9.5 It is very likely that you will first need to install this library for your Linux distribution before you will be able to install TTSynth. Consult your standard distribution package repositories for this compatibility library. On Fedora, the appropriate rpm is compat-libstdc++-296 .