I came across Festival, via Ktts and Kmouth. You can pipe text into it via a command line script. Something like this:

 echo "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave." | festival --tts

Which means that ANYTHING that can be boiled down to a text steam is fair game. Doing a "cat somefile" works just as well.

With a little digging, I managed to switch the voice to a female voice, though it still is not quite as smooth as it should be.

I think my next task then is to write a script that can create the summary statements I want. Python seems to have some speech capabilities...

Shawn

John Jardine wrote:
Recommend: TuxDroid, http://www.kysoh.com/
It's not very traditional but I use it to track weather & gmail.

When I get time I want to write a bit of Python so it can read my IRC
and calendaring info as well.


On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 00:24 -0700, Shawn wrote:
I'm looking at playing with speech synthesis and speech recognition.

I have this idea that I'd like to be able to tell my computer to "check mail" and have it open the mail client. Or "browse web" and have it open a browser. And perhaps have my mail, or web/rss feeds read to me while I continue doing other work.

I've found this page: http://linux-sound.org/speech.html. But I'm curious if anyone has any recommendations on what software I should try out or avoid.

Thanks.

Shawn

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