[dundee] having a conversation with your OS

[Colin Brough]

> TEXT SYNTHESIS
> (the kind thats integrated with the OS)
> 
> so... supposedly KDE has had stuff like this for a wee whiley now....
> (kmouth, ksayit, kttsmgr)
> 
> anyone use this already?
> 
> i've yet to find where to get a voice ("talker") for it.  and i havnt seen
> where the voice reccognition stuff is at.


"festival" is the best speech synthesis software out there - from
Edinburgh Uni's Centre for Speech Technology research, and in the
Ubuntu repositories at least. You can get various voices, male,
female, American, etc...

How integrated it is I don't know - you can often replace the various
beeps the OS gives with an equivalent speech command:

	echo "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that" | festival --tts

etc.


Cheers

Colin

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Colin Brough                             Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk