Merge pull request #5 from mohan43u/master

re-factored tamil-tts-install

README.md

@@ -2,93 +2,38 @@
 
 Author : T Shrinivasan <[email protected]>
 
-
 This is a script to install the Tamil text to Speech System provided by IIT Madras and SSN College of Engineering at
 https://www.iitm.ac.in/donlab/tts/voices.php
 
 ## System requirements:
-Ubuntu 16.04
+1. Ubuntu 16.04
+2. Ubuntu 18.04
 
 ## Will it work on Windows?
-
 No. 
 
-
-## How to execute:
-
-
+## How to Install
 ```
 git clone https://github.com/tshrinivasan/tamil-tts-install.git
-
 cd tamil-tts-install
+./tamil-tts.sh --clean --setup
 
 ```
 
-Edit the file, install-tamil-tts.sh
-
-Fill the following details.
-
-DOWNLOAD_PATH=/home/ubuntu/tts/packages  #to download the required packages
-
-COMPILE_PATH=/home/ubuntu/tts/compiled   # to place the compiled files and folders
-
-
-Register here http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/download.shtml and get a username and password
-
-HTKUSER=htkuserchennai
-
-HTKPASSWORD=sgqY=t=M
-
-
-Then, execute the file as
-
-bash install-tamil-tts.sh
-
-
-
-## How to convert a text to audio?
-
+## How to convert tamil text to .wav
 ```
-export FESTDIR=/usr
-
-
-cd COMPILE_PATH
-ssn_hts_demo/scripts/complete “தமிழ் வாழ்க” linux
-
+cd tamil-tts-install
+./tamil-tts.sh --run --source tamil-text.txt
 ```
+This will generate 'tamil-text.wav' file
 
-
-This will convert the text and store as wav in
-
-ssn_hts_demo/wav/1.wav
-
-you can play it with any audio player.
-
-
-The full details of what is on the compile process is explained here.
-https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/how-to-compile-tamil-tts-engine-from-source/
-
-To hear a demo on how the tamil TTS system sounds, click here
-https://soundcloud.com/shrinivasan/tamil-tts-demo
-
-
-
-
-## How to convert a full text file to audio?
-
-Prepare the tamil text content as a text file. Save it as ".txt" extension.
-
-open the file convert-file-to-audio.py, with any text editor and replace the following two parapeters with suitable folders.
-
-ssn_demo_path = "/home/shrini/Downloads/ssn_hts_demo"
-
-mp3_out_path = "/home/shrini/test"
-
-
-Then execute the below command
-
+## How to convert tamil text to .mp3
 ```
-python convert-file-to-audio.py <filename.txt>
+cd tamil-tts-install
+./tamil-tts.sh --run --gen-mp3 --source tamil-text.txt
 ```
+This will generate 'tamil-text.mp3' file
 
-This will make mp3 file and store in the folder mp3_out_path/filename-timestamp
+## howto set your own HTKUSER and HTKPASSWORD in tamil-tts.sh
+Register here http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/download.shtml and get a username and password, replace your
+own username and passward in HTKUSER and HTKPASSWORD