Spake Eben King on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 at 11:46PM -0400:
> Yes, there are other ways of doing this, so in some respect I'm
> reinventing the wheel. My initial goal (when I wrote this in (pd)ksh)
> was to get it done, since there was no other way (that I saw) of doing
> this without incurring a significant amount of overhead. Now there
> probably is, but since some scripts depend on it, I'll rewrite it in sh.
>
> Festival isn't particularly lightweight, but I guess you can use whatever
> you want. It acts as a daemon, accepting festival-language commands
> (LISP, I think) over TCP port 1314. This script sends $* as one
> statement. If that fails, it sends one word at a time. If a word fails,
> it resends that word as l e t t e r s.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # eben wrote this
>
> saytext () {
> netcat -c "echo '(SayText \"$*\")' ;
> while read line ; do
> case \"z\$line\" in
> *OK) exit ;;
> zER) exit 1 ;;
> esac
> done
> echo '(quit)'" localhost 1314
> }
>
> saytext "$@" || {
> echo -E "`date`" "$*" >> /tmp/say.errors
> set $*
> for word in "$@" ; do
> saytext "$word" || saytext "$(echo "$word" | sed 's/\(.\)/\1 /g')"
> done
> }
>
> I call at "say".
You might also be interested in flite (which uses festival, but is more light-weight),
and espeak (which does not use festival, and is better for long texts.)
Both flite and espeak have interfaces similar to your script.
Also, espeak can speak a variety of languages, and accents -- including
a scottish (glaswegian, I think) accent, although I
haven't been able make it work quite right.
--
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a
completely unintentional side effect.
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