Carlos E. R. wrote:
Is there a program that can convert text to voice?
I am developing an accessible kiosk <http://www.tivis.net.au> which uses the Festival system for text-to-speech work.
What is festival? I can't find any docs or file about it in SuSE - and I'm offline right now, can't google it ;-)
Festival comes from the University of Edinburgh (where they have the Edinburgh Festival ;-) and is based on the Edinburgh Speech Tools Library. You can find details at <http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/speech_tools/> I have been doing my tests using Perl and XSLT to convert well-formed XHTML Web pages into the Sable speech markup language that Festival understands. Although I haven't spent much time on it (I'm hoping to get funding), my initial trials were very promising, including a small Perl programme that could ftp the weather forecast from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and then read it to me... Throughout my development process, I've run Festival under Suse 8.1 and 8.2 with no problems. A couple of people have reported problems compiling the Speech Tools part, so I'm just compiling it all again on 9.0; no errors compiling Speech Tools, but when I come to compile Festival, the same error shows. I think, however, I have found the source of the error and have fixed it by renaming a header file and leaving a blank on in it's place. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Kadina Business Consultancy South Australia http://www.kbc.net.au