I got festival connected to server, thanks...I want to demo to other hams.So far with Ubuntu 9.04, has been a good experience. steve kd5mkv thx
> Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 11:25:25 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Xastir] audio alerts on os X > > On a whim I did a bit of playinivalg with audio alerts on OS X. > > I replaced the play command with /usr/bin/say (command line to OS X > speech synthesis) and replaced the file name with a string to be > spoken. > > Almost got it, but /usr/local/share/xastir/sound/ was getting > prepended to the "filename". > > Edited xastir config file, cleared out the SOUND_DIR entry. Bummer, > apparently the path is hard coded as a default, because it's still > there. Is there some sort of placeholder I can use to keep it empty? > > Hacked out a little perl script to strip > /usr/local/share/xastir/sound/ from argv[0] and execute the say > command, and use it for the "play" command. > > It works! I'm already sick of hearing my computer say "new station heard". > > Maybe I'll see if I can fake a festival client the same way. > > Perl script follows. > > -Jason > kg4wsv > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > $ARGV[0] =~ s!/usr/local/share/xastir/sounds/!!g; > system("/usr/bin/say", (join " ", @ARGV)); > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® goes with you. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Mobile1_052009 _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
