Welcome to dramaTTS’s documentation!

About

dramaTTS parses scripts (plain text files) for theatre/screen plays and converts them into a multi-voice audio plays (wave-files).

While the script parsing functionality is provided by the dramaTTS program itself, it relies on external tools for the audio processing:

• The Festival Speech Synthesis System [1] (herein referred to as Festival) is used for speech synthesis
• Sound eXchange (SoX) [2] for audio post-processing.

SoX, Festival as well as voices and lexicons for Festival have to be installed in order to create audio output with dramaTTS (see Getting started).

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Features
  • Licenses
• Getting started
  • Installing dramaTTS
  • Installing Festival without non-free components
  • Installing SoX
  • Configuring locations of external tools in dramaTTS
• User guide
  • GUI layout
  • Input format basics
  • Handling text files
  • Working with “Content identifiers”
  • Substitutions
  • Configure speakers
  • Render audio
  • Adjust program preferences
• API reference
  • ScriptParser
  • AudioRenderer
  • ProjectManager
  • Helper functions
  • VoiceConfig

Links

[1]	http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/Festival/

[2]	http://sox.sourceforge.net/Main/HomePage

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page