The Friday 2004-01-02 at 15:03 +1030, Matthew Smith wrote:
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 found it out soon after asking, and I downloaded it - I wonder why SuSE doesn't include it? - I still haven't tried to compile it; version 1.4.3: January 2003, acording to the web page: aREADME-1-4.3-RELEASE festival-1.4.3-release.tar.gz festlex_CMU.tar.gz festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz festvox_ellpc11k.tar.gz festvox_kallpc16k.tar.gz speech_tools-1.2.3-release.tar.gz
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...
Ah, sounds interesting :-)
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.
Could you be more specific? It would save me trouble :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson