Re: [Plug] speechd (implementation of /dev/speech) released

[adam <adam@Looney.com>]

It does exist. I will check if it's writable tomorrow. good point.
the install created it for me.
"Jason S." wrote:

> Did you read all the docs? Did you run speechd? Does /dev/speech exist,
> and is it writeable?
>
> J.
>
> When I grow up, I wanna be more like me.
> I had a clue. I didn't like it. I took it back and exchanged it for an
> attitude.
>
> On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, adam wrote:
>
> > Ok, Igot past this. turned out I should have downloaded another speech package
> > (or gotten the mbrola proggie)>
> > so.. now the only thing is, catting something to /dev/speech still produces no
> > results....
> > Pipeing text to festival works fine tho
> > adam wrote:
> >
> > > Hey, Im having a bit of trouble with this.
> > > if I run echo "lalala" | festival --tts
> > > I get
> > > sh:mbrola:command not found
> > > Cannot open file /tmp/est_03831_00000.au as tokenstream
> > > Wave load: can't open file "tmp/est_03831_00000.au"
> > > Cannot load wavefile: /tmp/est_03831_00000.au
> > > Linux: can't open /dev/dsp
> > > What am I missing?
> > >
> > > Darxus wrote:
> > >
> > > > For those of you who weren't at the meeting & don't watch freshmeat:
> > > >
> > > > speechd implements a /dev/speech device (all plaintext written to it will
> > > > be spoken aloud) using either the Festival or rsynth speech synthesis
> > > > packages (both free). An ircII (Internet Relay Chat) script (speech.irc)
> > > > has been created, and a Slashdot ticker (slashes) has been modified to
> > > > make use of this device.
> > > >
> > > > All of this can be found at http://www.op.net/~darxus/speech
> > > >
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