How to get Festival text to speech working?

[Tim]

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 17:22 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> Well I tried it again today on Fedora 7, and actually got some speech out of 
> it. The last time I tried it must have been about 3 years ago on FC1, or FC2, 
> and couldn't get it to work, but I was very new to computers, and Linux.  The 
> speech isn't quite up to Star Trek standards, but your ears get tuned in 
> after a while. 

Hmm, where do we campaign to get a synthesised Majel Barrett's voice
saying, "warning, core dump in progress"?  ;-)

I haven't had a play with a speech synth since my old Amiga, but after
noticing the thread decided to have a go at this.  I seemed to be able
to get it to speak without having to change anything.  Just using the
command line.  I typed the the (SayText ....) part in as my test:

[tim at bigblack ~]$ festival
Festival Speech Synthesis System 1.96:beta July 2004
Copyright (C) University of Edinburgh, 1996-2004. All rights reserved.
For details type `(festival_warranty)'
festival> (SayText "I am the very model of a modern major general")
#<Utterance 0xb7125f08>
festival> 

Likewise, giving it a text file like a prior post, worked without any
messing around:

[tim at bigblack ~]$ festival --tts < testfile.text

I didn't have to do anything other than the above.

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr
2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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