• 1. Overview
• 2. Requirements
• 3. Build
• GNU Build (Linux and other Unix variants)
• VS2005 Build (Windows XP, Vista, ...)
• 4. Configuration

1. Overview

This guide describes how to use Flite TTS with UniMRCP server. It assumes you are already familiar with installation and configuration tips of UniMRCP server.

2. Requirements

• UniMRCP r1037 and above
• Flite library and voices

Note: The library and voices are borrowed from FreeSWITCH (http://svn.freeswitch.org/downloads/libs/). FreeSWITCH's users can reuse what they have already installed with FreeSWITCH.

3. Build

GNU Build (Linux and other Unix variants)

1. Download Flite library, unpack and build it.

./configure
make

1. Configure UniMRCP as follows

./configure --enable-flite-plugin --with-flite=path-to-flite-source-dir
make
make install

VS2005 Build (Windows XP, Vista, ...)

1. Download Flite library, unpack it into unimrcp\libs\flite directory
2. Open flite.sln file and build the solution.
3. Open unimrcp.sln file, include flite project into build (Build -> Configuration Manager).
4. Build the solution.

4. Configuration

Specify mrcpflite as a plugin in unimrcpserver.xml as follows:

    <plugin-factory>
      <engine id="Flite-1" name="mrcpflite" enable="false"/>
    </plugin-factory>

There can be multiple plugins of the same resource and it's possible to configure profile based plugins. However, for the beginning, you may want to enable only Flite plugin and disable other TTS plugins.