How about you hire a young woman to hide under the display desk, and give her a Kareoke box. When she hears someone say something, or she sees it on the monitor under the table, she can repeat it. Just a thought. Jim At 12:59 AM 7/14/2001 -0700, you wrote: >I installed festival's deb and can SayText "hello" but nothing comes out the >speakers. A while back Seth even helped me and we could never get it up and >running. I think it's not pointing to the right irq or i/o port. Seth had >it reading Edger Allen Poe's "The Raven". It was great. He also had it >reading web pages. If you have any suggestion on how to get the sound for >festival configured it would be great. You could have it read warning to >you. How about reading your log files? I just wish festival had a female >voice like the computer on Star Trek. > >Tim > > > > > > >On Friday 13 July 2001 14:22, you wrote: > > (also posted) > > > > Festival is pretty cool. I suggest the male british speaker, Roger. > > > > I can pipe my email (since I use mutt) to a simple script I made, which > > then pipes it to festival. The script filters out stuff like <>[]:-_ and > > things like the email header, content-type, x-mailer and other things. The > > script is simple, but the concept can be grown into creating cleaner, more > > tts readable email. > > > > See attached. fst is the script, fest.ignore is an ignore file. Wherever > > you put fest.ignore, modify the path in fst. > > > > fst.ignore contains matches. For anything matched in this file, the whole > > line is removed. Good for Content-Type...., Reply-To:.. charset=... and > > does not have to be the beginning of a file, or a whole line. Don't put a > > blank line in the file or you will "ignore" everything. These lines use > > regular expressions. > > > > In fst, there is a line which removes single characters from individual > > lines: perl -pi -e 's/[<>\*\-\[\]_:]/ /g' This replaces these characters: > > <>*-[]_: with a space. > > Larger phrases can be removed by adding in another section in the command > > pipe: (before |festival --ts) > > > > |perl -pi -e 's/search/replace-can_be_empty/g' > > > > Cory > > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:06:27PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote: > > > Festival is amazing. > > > > > > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ > > > > > > or as always: apt-get install festival > > > for those of you running Debian :) > > > > > > there are others... > > > > > > --- "James S. Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > At 10:01 AM 7/12/2001, you wrote: > > > > > ** This message was sent from the EUGLUG > > > > > > > > message board. Since ** > > > > > > > > > ** the person who submitted this question > > > > > > > > may not be on the ** > > > > > > > > > ** mailing list, please reply directly or on > > > > > > > > the message board: ** > > > > > > > > > ** > > > > > > > > http://www.euglug.org/board.phtml?id=97 > > > > ** > > > > > > > > >Is there a linux text to speech program, I am > > > > > > > > jealous because my > > > > > > > > >daughters iBook can read her email to her > > > > > > > > while she is doing > > > > > > > > >other things. > > > > > > > > http://www.tycho.com/packages/speak > > > > > > > > Primitive, but effective... > > > > > > > > - jk > > > > ----------------------------- > > > > James S. Kaplan KG7FU > > > > Eugene Oregon USA > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://www.rio.com/~kg7fu > > > > ICQ # 1227639 > > > > Have YOU tried Linux today? > > > > ----------------------------- > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail > > > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > >---------------------------------------- >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Description: >---------------------------------------- > >---------------------------------------- >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 2" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Description: >----------------------------------------
