*Re: Online Tamil Text to Speech - Introduction (Shrinivasan T) *
Congratulations on releasing the online Tamil Text to Speech Engine. 2
questions
*Q1)* Is the TTS engine a neural net based engine or a concative TTS Engine?
*Q2)* Do you have the tentative timeline for the updates mentioned above:
**The below updates will be provided soon.* 1. Female Voice 2. Better
TTS 3. TTS for other languages 4. Rest API "*
We at building a tool called *VideoWiki *that allows users to drag and drop
images/videos from Wikimedia Commons onto Wikipedia text, thereby providing
a visual layer to Wikipedia. Looking to collaborate with you and hopefully
we can build the video version of Tamil Wikipedia and other Indic languages
soon.
*Regards,Pratik*
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We are happy to release the Online Tamil Text to Speech conversion software
at
http://tts.kaniyam.com
This is a Free Software. Get the source code here -
https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/tts-web This is made with
Ubuntu/Linux, Python, Django, Celery, MySQL etc.
Introduction
This online software can convert your Tamil text files to audio files in
MP3 format. (TTS = Text To Speech)
How to Convert?
1. Create an Account here
http://tts.kaniyam.com/signup/
2. You will receive an email with account activation link. Click that
link.
3. Do login
4. Goto
http://tts.kaniyam.com/upload/ Upload a file with tamil unicode
text.
5. Now, that text file will be converted as audio file (mp3) in
background. It may take some time for this. From few minutes to few
hours
too. This wait time depends on your file size, Total number files being
uploaded, and queue order of your file etc.
6. Once it is converted as MP3, you will receive an email with download
link. It will be displayed on your home page too.
http://tts.kaniyam.com/
7. Click the link and Download the MP3 file.
Frequently Asked Questions *What types of files can be uploaded?*
Only Tamil Unicode text files are supported. File can be upto 100 MB.
*Why do I have to register? Can I upload files without registering?*
The TTS conversion is slow process. It may take few hours to complete.
Waiting with browser tab open for few hours is not possible. To notify the
user, after the file conversion, sending email is one simple way. Thats why
we ask for registering. Tell us if there are even better ways.
*Shall I upload my private files?*
If you have more private, secret files, dont upload here. Dont upload to
any of the online applications. Anyhow, this is Free/Open Source Software.
you can install this in your home ubuntu/linux computer.
You can upload here general files, which are not too private to you. We
have made essential settings so that you only can access your files. No
other can access your files. (Except admins and server providers).
*How long the MP3 files will be there on the server?*
For now, we keep them for 3 days as testing. After three days, they will be
deleted automatically.
*Why there is only male voice? Why cant we have female voice?*
Female voice is in testing. Will add soon.
*Why there is only Tamil TTS? We need for other languages too.*
Other languages TTS are in our action items. We are yet to find suitable
TTS and how to use them. If you know about them, let us know.
*Is this software a safer one?*
Not 100%. As this is Free/Open source software, you can check its code at
https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/tts-web There are many security
related things to do like adding SSL. Encrypting the files and hard disks
etc. We will do them soon.
*How to install this on Windows?*
No. Not possible.
*Why?*
When you have only two wheeler vehicle, we hope, you wont try to fit a car
seat on it and ride.
Contributors
This is done with the awesome contributions of many.
IndicTTS
*IndicTTS* (
https://www.iitm.ac.in/donlab/tts/index.php) is a project
driven by IIT Madras. SSN College of Engineering and IIT Madras jointly
developed TTS for Tamil and released as Free/Open Source Software. Research
works for other languages are going on.
*Contributors*
- Hema - hema(a)cse.iitm.ac.in
- Anju - anjuthomas95(a)gmail.com
- Nagarajan - nagarajant(a)ssn.edu.in
The following friends, made the tamil tts installation simple as running a
shell script.
- Mohan - mohan43u(a)gmail.com
- Padmakumar - padmakumar.rajan(a)gmail.com
- Shrinivasan - tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com
Script is here -
http://github.com/tshrinivasan/tamil-tts-install
Testing and improvements are done by
Khaleel Jageer - jskcse4(a)gmail.com
Django web application written and maintained by
Balaji - fossbalaji(a)gmail.com
The Server is donated by
E2E Networks,
www.e2enetworks.com
All the plans, ideas, requirements, action items are provided by
Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai
http://ilugc.in Free Software
Foundation,
TamilNadu
http://fsftn.org
Organized by
Kaniyam Foundation -
http://kaniyam.com/foundation
*Contact* kaniyamfoundation(a)gmail.com
*The below updates will be provided soon.*
1. Female Voice
2. Better TTS
3. TTS for other languages
4. Rest API
How to report issues?
- Create an account in
Github.com
- Create an issue here
https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/tts-web/issues
- Write all the errors, issues, new ideas etc
You can Contribute
1. Using the Free/Open Source Software and introducing them to others
itself a great contribution.
2. Use this. Report us on any bugs and required features, ideas etc.
3. Spread the news about this in Social media, Print media etc.
4. Donate us. Kaniyam Foundation is working on building such open source
software and open digital resources. Your donations will help us do to
more.
Bank account details
Kaniyam Foundation
Account Number : 606 1010 100 502 79
Union Bank Of India
West Tambaram, Chennai
IFSC - UBIN0560618
- Send your name, donation details to kaniyamfoundation(a)gmail.com
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
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