On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:05 +1200, Neil Stockbridge wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:55 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> > > > I also talked very briefly about the Festival/Mbrola/kttsd text to 
> > > > speech 
> > > > system, and demonstrated it.
> > > > 
> > > > http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/
> > > 
> > > is there a command-line interface to TTS that can be scripted?  it would
> > > be cool if unhelpful and irritating to have servers speak up when
> > > they're running low on disc space.
> > it is in fact a front end to festival, so go back one step and use
> > festival :-)
> 
> "flite" was going through my mind during the presentation.  that's
> festival lite, right?  is there any scriptable tool for saying things
> with festival?  if so, what's it called?  i wrote a Java server that
> uses JFreeTTS that i can make say things using:
> 
>   echo when thinking about the history of the universe | telnet
> localhost 31324
> 
> ..but the Java takes up a lot of RAM and i'd like a substitute written
> in C.
> 

echo when thinking about the history of the universe | festival -tts

> - neil
> 
> 

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