[Fwd: Re: [SLE] text to voice]

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Subject: Re: [SLE] text to voice
Date: 02 Jan 2004 02:18:45 -0500
From: Mark Gray <[email protected]>
To: SLE <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

"Carlos E. R." <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there a program that can convert text to voice?
> 
> Even better, use the PC loudspeaker, instead of the soundcard?
> 
> I think I remember some one mentioning a speaking clock :-?

I use rsynth-2.0 -- the linux driver included is 8 bit only (and needs
a one line fix for it to work with SuSE).  I have hacked together a
16-bit OSS (compatability) driver for it if you are interested.  I
have plans to write a native alsa and arts driver for it.  The voices
that festival produces are _slightly_ more natural sounding, but
festival takes several seconds to start up on my K6-2/500 whereas
rsynth starts instantaneously even on a K5/100.

I used to use saytime to "chime" the time, but it writes headerless
mu-law files to /dev/audio, and that causes SuSE-9.0 to hang solid
looping, saying the time over and over, and the computer becomes
totally unresponsive (an alsa OSS compatibility bug I have been too
lazy to report).  I now use a perl script to call rsynth to chime the
quarter hour (also available if you are interested, but it is such a
simple script I doubt there will be any takers.)


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