Cainteoir Text-to-Speech For Linux

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.

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.

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.

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 Softpedia, 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/softpedia/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.