Text to voice -

[Bob Goodwin]

Dennis Allison wrote:

>http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
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>http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/festival/
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>http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/doc/
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>http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/
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>http://cmuflite.org/
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>All found via google  (-:
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>On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Bob Goodwin wrote:
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>>John Wendel wrote:
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>>>Bob Goodwin wrote:
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>>>>Can anyone suggest an application to convert
>>>>text to voice audio to read e-mail, etc. aloud?
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>>>>Thank you.
>>>>
>>>>Bob Goodwin    Zuni, Virginia
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>>>"festival" is the text-to-speech app shipped with Fedora. "man 
>>>festival" has the details. It would be really nice if it was 
>>>integrated with the desktop, if you get it working in a useful fashion 
>>>let us know.
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>>>Regards,
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>>>John
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>>Thanks for the guidance, someone mentioned "flite" and/or "festival," 
>>neither of which showed in my google effort? It turns out that festival 
>>is available from yum and also on disk #3 of FC-2, this distribution.
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>>I installed festival from the FC-2 CD and now have to figure out what it 
>>is and what I can do with it.
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>>I lost most of the sight in my right eye a couple of years ago and now I 
>>am having trouble with the left eye. I can still read text on the screen 
>>but with difficulty, making it large helps but converting it to voice 
>>might be useful at least part of the time.
>>
>>Bob Goodwin
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Yes, I'm sure google does ok if you know the app. names, flite, and 
festival, but I searched on "text to voice" and never got where I needed 
to be.

I'm in good shape now and have festival working from the command line.

Thanks to all.

Bob Goodwin