The audio interface works by default using Internet Explorer on Windows, and works with Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, and Opera with the appropriate plugin installed (an audio player that plays mp3 or ogg files). The audio interface has been working on a Linux 2.6 system with the mplayerplug-in installed for Mozilla 1.7, but only for mp3 voice files. All other features will function with 2.4 versions of the kernel (and earlier). Linux mozilla users will require a version 2.6 kernel with a working version of ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) installed, to take advantage of the *audio interface* features. ATalker will not work with ATutor where the content/ directory exists outside the ATutor installation.Īny current browser can be used to generate speech with ATalker, and when the appropriate helper application or plugin is installed, be used to read the files outloud. The ATutor content directory must exists inside the ATutor installation. Recomended for 2.6 kernel: mplayerplug-in for mozilla/netscape (ogg/mp3/wav), netscape-plugger(ogg/mp3/wav) Recommended for 2.4 kernel: xmms (ogg/mp3/wav), mplayer (ogg/mp3/wav)
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The following are potential audio players that might be used to read ATalker audio files:Īlternates: windows media player (mp3/wav) The mime types to add to the helper applications list are audio/wav, audio/x-ogg, and audio/x-mp3. On Linux/Unix based systems it is sometimes necessary to configure browser helper applications to read these files. On Windows systems, default settings are often sufficeint, or when opening a speech file in a browser for the first time, users can choose which application to read the file with, and there after all such file will be read with that application. Mbrola Binary and Voices (optional additional voices)Ī user's browser must be setup to read ATalker speech files. Oggenc OGG encoder (available through vorbis-tools for Unix/Linux and Windows)ģ.
Bladeenc MP3 encoder (Unix/Linux, Mac, and Windows versions)ģ. LAME MP3 encoder (Unix/Linux and Windows versions)Ģ. MP3 & OGG Audio Encoders (optional but reccommended)ġ. WAV files are otherwise too large to be used for interface speech.Ģ. To create an audio interface for the ATalker theme, one of these encoders must be installed. ATalker will try to determine which encoders are installed and automatically make those audio formats available. If you get something other than "does not exists", chances are the encoder is installed. To determine if you have an encoder installed, type "lame", "oggenc, or "bladeenc" at the command prompt. At least one of the following encoders should be installed on the system, and be available in the system's PATH variable (so it can be started from anywhere on the system). MP3 or OGG files are about 1/10th the size of a WAV file.
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You will want to install and MP3 or OGG encoder to convert WAV files to a more manageable size. The ATalker reader will function with just the base Festival system, though it will only produce WAV audio files, which are very large, take a long time to download, and essentially make ATalker not very useful. Festival needs to be installed and functioning properly on your system before you attempt to install ATalker.
Festival is a text-to-speech engine developed at the University of Edinburgh. **1 Requirements** (In addition to a working ATutor)ġ. This version of ATalker is based on the Festival 1.4.3 Speech Synthesis System, though should function properly with Festival 2.0.Ģ. The potential for many other languages is available through the Mbrola project for those who would like to contribute. ATalker can currently produce English and Spanish voices. It differd from the previous version on y in that it include the ATutor module files. This version of ATalker (the second version) was developed on a Linux based system, but should, in theory, work on other systems that support the Festival Text-to-Speech system. With the ATalker Theme installed, ATalker also provides an audio interface for ATutor, and reads feedback and error messages out loud. README for the ATutor 1.5.2 ATalker ModuleĪTalker is a text-to-speech utility for reading text out loud over the Web with synthisized speech, available as an addon for ATutor.
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