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MU · Last edited by MU on Sun 13 Jul 2008, 21:46; edited 1 time in total

Download (11 MB):
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Science/festival.pup

It is 34 MB extracted on your harddisk.
If you want it on another one, move and symlink /usr/local/festival

Then in a consolewindow type:

talk "this is a test. What do you think about it?"

it uses this synthesizer:
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html

It uses this program, to convert text to phonemes:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

Mark

klhrevolutionist · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 1124

I am typiny what you told, but do not here anything ? Do I need to have anything installed ? I was assuming that everything needed was included in the dotpup...

EDIT = I believe my speaker is malfunctioning... Hooked it up to surround sound and now works !!

MU · Posted: Fri 16 Jun 2006, 15:05 Post subject:

Do you use Puppy2?
Do you get any errors?
can you hear something with this command?:

aplay /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav

Please also try this in a console:

/usr/local/festival/festival/bin/festival
(SayText "test")
CTRL-D to stop

You get any errors?
Mark

Lobster · Posted: Fri 16 Jun 2006, 17:35 Post subject:

What fun. Thanks Mark works OK on my (inbuilt) Via soundcard Smile

MU · Posted: Fri 16 Jun 2006, 18:04 Post subject:

fine Kenny Very Happy

Lobster,
yeah, it's cool for single sentences. But when you try to let it say messages from the forum, it gets difficult to understand Wink

But it might be funny, to add things like
talk "ok, I'll serve you, master"
if you click on a button in a wizard Laughing

If it would not be so big...

Mark

Lobster · Posted: Sat 17 Jun 2006, 01:09 Post subject:

Flash · Posted: Sat 17 Jun 2006, 01:41 Post subject:

It would be nice if Puppy could make a noise to let you know when it finished doing something that takes a while, like downloading a large file or opening a web page that takes a long time.

MU · Posted: Sat 17 Jun 2006, 02:51 Post subject:

flash, it depends.
I think you can not alter downloads from Mozilla/Firefox.

But you could rename wget to wget2.

Then create a new wget:

Lobster · Posted: Sat 17 Jun 2006, 04:13 Post subject:

A pseudo random number sufficient here can be called like so:

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 5089 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

It's amazing how much funnier ordinary phrases can be when the PC says them.
I've used text to speech before & the kids had a blast with it.

PC speech quotes;
"Nathan is a do do head"
"Lauren has a big butt"

The kids laughed for hours doing this.
Thanks MU for bringing all this back to us.

Lobster · Posted: Sat 24 Jun 2006, 10:10 Post subject:

Calling MU
Lobster to MU . . .

random function reminder . . .

MU · Posted: Sat 24 Jun 2006, 16:25 Post subject:

ok, here it is Smile

First, you need talkext1 to read textfiles:
( description: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=54129#54129 )

Then you need some textfiles with the text to be read.
And finally "randomtext", a small Puppybasic examplescript.
I added some start-variables in it, so that you easily can customize it.

I made a dotpup of all required files with a menu-entry:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Science/talktext1.pup

Works with the english and the german speech-synthesizers.

Mark

klhrevolutionist · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 1124

Robots in disguise...

Are there other voices for this thing ? The one by default is a robot. I know lobster mentioned a website sometime back that could say small lines in different tones. I will be looking up the docs, but thought I might ask in case somebody else already knew.

Thanks.

edoc · Posted: Sat 25 Nov 2006, 20:50 Post subject:

Lobster · Posted: Sun 26 Nov 2006, 02:15 Post subject: all singing / dancing Puppy