This is great, I tried to get text to speech working on my unit a couple years ago and it didn't work. I forgot all about it, but I'm sure many understand what a time saver this thing can be. Now I can get it up and running because I still want to be able to do what I wanted to do a couple years ago.
Thanks Paul On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is a great howto for setting up Festival for all your text to > speech needs on ubuntu. > http://bit.ly/3w8RC > > You can installed Festival and mbrola using apt and the Ubuntu > repositories, even with 64bit ubuntu. The version of Festival in the > howto is 1.95, and for karmic it is 1.96beta. The repo version of > Festival might be different for those using 10.04 or higher. With > Festival 1.96beta, the instructions work fine; all the voices > installed correctly and work pretty well. Caveat: I links for the > festvox_us#.tar.gz files were dead, so I found these: > wget http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/downloads/festival/1.95/festvox_us1.tar.gz > wget http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/downloads/festival/1.95/festvox_us2.tar.gz > wget http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/downloads/festival/1.95/festvox_us3.tar.gz > > There is also a Pidgin plugin for festival. > > Many in the LUG might already know how to do this but I thought it > would good to post a good howto for those that do not. > > Chris... > -- > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to > be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > -Roger Penrose > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
