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Very Nice Tool
by Shane Mason - Nov 16th 2003 18:30:22
When you couple this program with an easy to use interface (like perlbox-voice) it is extremely nice. The
voices are every bit as clear as anything in the Microsoft toolbox, and the
only thing going for Linux.
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Re: Very Nice Tool
by Ben Crowell - Nov 13th 2005 08:31:02
> When you couple this program with an
> easy to use interface (like
> perlbox-voice) it is extremely nice. The
> voices are every bit as clear as
> anything in the Microsoft toolbox, and
> the only thing going for Linux.
I'm using festival from a Perl/Tk application. It's wonderful to be able
to plug in this kind of functionality so easily. I shudder to think how
much of a hassle it would have been (both for me and for potential users)
to do the same thing in the world of proprietary software. Woo hoo!
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Festival
by George Russell - Aug 1st 2001 06:14:37
This is really very cool, its text to speech capability is useful and
output is understandable. Had grief in trying to get the java support
working in 1.4.1 though.
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Festival does text to speech
by hilltop - Sep 15th 2000 22:06:32
Festival takes a little effort to get working, but is pretty easy if your
sound works and you install the rpm's from the festival web site. There
are several voices available with the package. I tried all of them. The
default one is decent. The one I like best is ked_diphone. You can
change the default voice in /usr/share/festival/lib/voices.scm in the
default-voice-priority-list directive.
You can make festival read text kernel docs to you with:
cd /usr/src/linux/Documentation
for f in *.txt
do festival --tts $f
done
(ksh/zsh/bash scripty)
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Difficult to configure
by Wokan - Nov 14th 1999 04:51:05
The directions are scattered about the site's pages. Instructions
concerning configuring voices are scattered between several site sections
(manual, download addendums, etc.) Troubleshooting instructions seem to
assume nothing beyond faulty directory pointers.
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Re: Difficult to configure
by Wokan - Nov 9th 2003 12:16:50
> The directions are scattered about the
> site's pages. Instructions concerning
> configuring voices are scattered between
> several site sections (manual, download
> addendums, etc.) Troubleshooting
> instructions seem to assume nothing
> beyond faulty directory pointers.
I must admit that the documentation on the Festival site has improved
greatly in the last few years. My only remaining hurdle to use of it at
this point is their lack of a good troubleshooting area. Festival speaks
too fast to understand on my system.
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Re: Difficult to configure
by i621148 - Dec 15th 2003 18:36:06
if you are using a redhat variant....
if you have a crappy soundcard like i do, festival does not
work on it. it will talk too fast.
a slightly unbearable fix for this is to become root and
cd /usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/festvox. then
vi kal_diphone.scm
look for a line which says something like:
(Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 4.5)
change the value at the end to slow or speed up the default voice...
it is still chipmunky though and i have found that changing this voice
does not also change the voice in Gnopernicus which i was hoping it would.
My mom is blind and i was trying to enable the speech function with this
method.
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