Cainteoir Text-to-Speech

Cainteoir Text-to-Speech (cainteoir-gtk) is an open source and completely free graphical software project implemented in C++/GTK+ and designed from the offset to act as a GUI front-end for the Cainteoir TTS (Text-to-Speech) engine library software.

The application offers an easy-to-use graphical user interface that allows users to listen to their documents, as well as to record them using the MBROLA algorithm for speech synthesis or the eSpeak text-to-speech (TTS) voice engine.

Supports reading of various documents types

The Cainteoir Engine is designed for reading and recording multiple document formats. It supports recording and reading of HTML (HyperText Markup Language), RTF (Rich Text Format), MHT (MIME HTML), e-mail and ePub formats.

Additionally, the TTS engine developed by Reece Dunn, comes with support for the PulseAudio sound server, as well as the WAV and OGG Vorbis audio file formats.

Getting started with Cainteoir Text-to-Speech

Before attempting to install the Cainteoir Text-to-Speech program on your GNU/Linux operating system, you will need to install a the autotools system, which comprises of the make, automake, autoconf, pkg-config, intltool and libtool, a C++ compiler, such as GCC, the Cainteoir Text-to-Speech engine, GTK+ 3.4 or higher, as well as the SigC++ development libraries.

Download the latest version of the program from Softoware, save the TAR archive on your Home directory or on the Desktop folder, extract its contents using an archive manager utility, open the Terminal app and go to the location of the extracted archive files (e.g. cd /home/softoware/cainteoir-gtk-cainteoir-gtk-0.9).

Run the ‘./autogen.sh’ command to create the configuration script, then run the ‘./configure’ command to configure and optimize the project for your system, followed by the ‘make’ command to compile the program and create the executable. Finally, after a successful compilation process, run the ‘sudo make install’ command to install Cainteoir Text-to-Speech.

What is new in this release:

• Provide better rendering of nested table of contents entries
• Moved the pitch, rate and volume options to a new settings tab
• Added narration (ePub 3 Media Overlays) configuration options to the settings tab1
• Track the currently playing chapter/section (only works if started from the first item)
• Improved the accessibility of the UI
• Updated the UI to better align with the GNOME Music application UI
• Use symbolic icons for the buttons on the UI
• Translation Updates:
• Vietnamese
• Catalan

Requirements:

• GTK+