Tim wrote: > 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. I think you'll find that festival works best like the following: # festival --server & # speechd Then all you have to do is send your text to /dev/speech and festival will speak it for you. You can find a speechd RPM in the Dries repo. $ echo "this is a test" > /dev/speech -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
