festival has a help command try ?, h, or help I forget which right now.
Jim K
P.S. the punctuation is important. I made mistakes on that at first.
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From: "Timothy Bolz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "euglug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 12:59 AM
Subject: [EUG-LUG:1567] Re: Text to Speech
> 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:
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> > > > >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
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