[clug-talk] Speech?

[Shawn]

I came across Festival, via Ktts and Kmouth.  You can pipe text into it 
via a command line script.  Something like this:

  echo "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave." | festival --tts

Which means that ANYTHING that can be boiled down to a text steam is 
fair game.  Doing a "cat somefile" works just as well.

With a little digging, I managed to switch the voice to a female voice, 
though it still is not quite as smooth as it should be.

I think my next task then is to write a script that can create the 
summary statements I want.  Python seems to have some speech capabilities...

Shawn

John Jardine wrote:
> Recommend: TuxDroid, http://www.kysoh.com/
> It's not very traditional but I use it to track weather & gmail.
> 
> When I get time I want to write a bit of Python so it can read my IRC
> and calendaring info as well.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 00:24 -0700, Shawn wrote:
>> I'm looking at playing with speech synthesis and speech recognition.
>>
>> I have this idea that I'd like to be able to tell my computer to "check 
>> mail" and have it open the mail client.  Or "browse web" and have it 
>> open a browser.  And perhaps have my mail, or web/rss feeds read to me 
>> while I continue doing other work.
>>
>> I've found this page: http://linux-sound.org/speech.html.  But I'm 
>> curious if anyone has any recommendations on what software I should try 
>> out or avoid.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Shawn
>>
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