Updated Dec 05, 2009 by mufl...@vbsimple.net
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InstallMbrola

Install Mbrola support for Gespeaker

Introduction

Gespeaker can use mbrola to play text with a more realistic speech. Just to install

mbrola package
one or more mbrola language packages

Requirements for Ubuntu users

Until Ubuntu packagers will not include mbrola in the official repositories the Ubuntu users will need to install mbrola and the voices from the Ubuntu Trucchi repository in this way:

sudo wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntutrucchi.list http://www.ubuntutrucchi.it/repository/ubuntutrucchi.list

wget -O - http://www.ubuntutrucchi.it/repository/ubuntutrucchi.asc | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update

Install mbrola support (for both Ubuntu and Debian users)

First need to install the mbrola package from the repository with:

sudo apt-get install mbrola

Then one or more voice packages must be installed from the following table:

Description	Package name
Afrikaans male	mbrola-af1
Brazilian Portuguese male	mbrola-br3
Croatian male	mbrola-cr1
Czech male	mbrola-cz2
German male	mbrola-de6
German female	mbrola-de7
British English male	mbrola-en1
Spanish male	mbrola-es1
French female	mbrola-fr4
Greek male	mbrola-gr2
Hungarian male	mbrola-hu1
Indonesian male	mbrola-id1
Italian male	mbrola-it3
Italian female	mbrola-it4
Latin male	mbrola-la1
Dutch male	mbrola-nl2
Polish female	mbrola-pl1
European Portuguese female	mbrola-pt1
Romanian male	mbrola-ro1
Swedish male	mbrola-sw1
Swedish female	mbrola-sw2
American English female	mbrola-us1
American English male	mbrola-us2

Install a package language with:

sudo apt-get install mbrola-us2

This will install the American English male voice for mbrola.

Check if mbrola voices are detected

Start Gespeaker and open Preferences dialog from Edit menu, then move to the Mbrola voices tab and check if Main program mbrola was detected and the same for the installed voice packages. Change voices path if needed, default voices install path is /usr/share/mbrola/voices/.