when first joining a MC server/singleplayer world it will give you a random voice which you may want to configure using /tts cfg
run /tts help
to get all commands
on the client... just install this mod, the server does most of the heavy lifting (unless you want to use in singleplayer)
if you want to use in SP you will have to follow the server setup guide
since this TTS mod is "module" based it will only load the SAM/dectalk modules if the required programs are on path
you can compile dectalk from https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk
and you need to compile sam-inline from my fork of sam https://github.com/walksanatora/SAM
and put them on path. (or System.getProperty("user.home")+"/.tts")
On linux systems (assuming you have git and gcc) you can run setup.sh
from this repo.
it will automatically download and install these programs to $HOME/.tts
if you want to make addon all you have to do is implement TTSEngine and add a factory function to AeiouMod.engines