DZone Snippets: festival code

Using TTS to read a text file with Asterisk

jrobertson (James Robertson) — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:02:44 GMT

This configuration reads a text file (limiting it to 130 characters or less) and then speaks the message to the caller.



exten => 3200,1,ReadFile(test=/tmp/test.txt,130)

exten => 3200,n,Festival(${test})

exten => 3200,n,Hangup

Using text-to-speech in Asterisk

jrobertson (James Robertson) — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:50:24 GMT

Use instructions to get Asterisk to use text-to-speech. Tested on Ubuntu 8.04 Sever.

*packages required*
festival
festvox-rablp16k

file: extensions.conf

detail

exten => 3250,1,Answer()

exten => 3250,n,Festival('hello world')

exten => 3250,n,Hangup

From the command-line type 'festival --server'
Then restart Asterisk

Festival TTS for Ruby

jrobertson (James Robertson) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:55:23 GMT

This text-to-speech engine uses Ruby and festival. Listen to the output as an mp3 sample [twittergram.com]

Prerequisites:
sudo apt-get install festival lame
sudo gem install festivaltts4r



require "rubygems"

require "festivaltts4r"

				

"I'm talking".to_speech

Reference: Festival TTS for Ruby - Make your Ruby Strings talk! [rubyforge.org]

Digg/RSS Reader

davor (Davor Babic) — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:18:53 GMT

Grabs the RSS-feed from digg.com and reads it out
loud using festival.



#!/bin/sh

# Copyright (c) 2005 Davor Babic 

# All rights reserved.

# Usage of the works is permitted provided that this

# instrument is retained with the works, so that any

# entity that uses the works is notified of this

# instrument.

# DISCLAIMER: THE WORKS ARE WITHOUT WARRANTY.



url="http://digg.com/rss/index.xml"



echo "Parsing RSS..."

curl --silent "$url" | grep -E '(title>|description>)' | \

        sed -n '4,$p' | \

	sed -e 's///' -e 's/<\/title>//' -e 's/<description>/  /' \
<br />	    -e 's/<\/description>//' | head -5 > digg 
<br />echo "Reading..."
<br />festival --tts digg
<br />rm -rf ./digg
<br />echo "Done."
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