Where to start?

[bwong]

Hi @koan how did you get your setup to work with MaryTTS.

The play back speed is sped up as if it is fast-forwarded.

Could you give some pointers?

When using other TTS system other than Espeak, the play back is super fast

Hello. A total n00b here. When I use espeak as my tts, the play back is fine. When I choose something else ie PicoTTS the play back is insanely fast and I cannot make out any words. I installed the pico2wave utils and such on the rpi and the generate a wav file via the command line and transferred that wav file to my personal laptop with VLC and it plays correctly, but when I try to use the TTS within Rhasspy web UI it is super fast, so fast that you can’t hear any words just high pitched gib…

[FredTheFrog]

Hi @koan !! Could you please provide instructions for building/installing that MaryTTS voice dfki-prudence-hsmm? I took a very quick look at the MaryTTS github, and am not certain where to get started. Will I need to install a full MaryTTS environment on my Raspbian OS? Thank you in advance for EVERYTHING you do for this Rhasspy community.

[No_one]

@FredTheFrog are you using docker? synesthesiam released a docker image for maryTTS here: https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/text-to-speech/#marytts

[FredTheFrog]

Thank you!! Most appreciated.

[koan]

I didn’t do anything special: I swapped out eSpeak for MaryTTS and it just worked. This doesn’t seem to be a MaryTTS issue, but an issue with the settings for your audio device.

[koan]

I use the Docker image, works fine here.

[bwong]

Hmm if my audio settings were the issue, I would think that espeak should also exhibit the same issue, but it does not. Espeak is the only TTS that works (meaning I can hear the words, and not something that sounds like its fast-forwarded). Can anyone point me to some docs to help me start diagnosing this issue. I’m not really sure what keywords to search for.