How to get Festival text to speech working?

[Rudolf Kastl]

2007/7/19, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net>:
> Tim wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I think you'll find that festival works best like the following:
>
> # festival --server &
> # speechd
>
> Then all you have to do is send your text to /dev/speech and festival
> will speak it for you.  You can find a speechd RPM in the Dries repo.
>
> $ echo "this is a test" > /dev/speech
>
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festival is limited to english pronounciation... that makes it quite
useless for most people on this planet actually.

personally i found that http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ is already much
more versatile.

regards,
Rudolf Kastl