On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 17:22 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Well I tried it again today on Fedora 7, and actually got some speech out of > it. The last time I tried it must have been about 3 years ago on FC1, or FC2, > and couldn't get it to work, but I was very new to computers, and Linux. The > speech isn't quite up to Star Trek standards, but your ears get tuned in > after a while. Hmm, where do we campaign to get a synthesised Majel Barrett's voice saying, "warning, core dump in progress"? ;-) I haven't had a play with a speech synth since my old Amiga, but after noticing the thread decided to have a go at this. I seemed to be able to get it to speak without having to change anything. Just using the command line. I typed the the (SayText ....) part in as my test: [tim@bigblack ~]$ festival Festival Speech Synthesis System 1.96:beta July 2004 Copyright (C) University of Edinburgh, 1996-2004. All rights reserved. For details type `(festival_warranty)' festival> (SayText "I am the very model of a modern major general") #<Utterance 0xb7125f08> festival> Likewise, giving it a text file like a prior post, worked without any messing around: [tim@bigblack ~]$ festival --tts < testfile.text I didn't have to do anything other than the above. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
