Comments on: Creating an audio blog reply using Festival

By: kl

kl — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:54:36 +0000

thank you!

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:56:48 +0000

Other languages would be nice to have them in as well, I agree.

By: Oyunlar

Oyunlar — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:50:45 +0000

link does not work (Coffee Notes for 24-Oct-2004).

By: lsi

lsi — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:30:45 +0000

it would be better with other languages support, but thanks..

By: Daniele

Daniele — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:21:02 +0000

I’m trying to use festival to save wav in italian language. The command “text2wave” has something to use “–language italian –tts”?

By: lah

lah — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 23:18:58 +0000

Very cool. Hadn’t even crossed my mind to do something like this. So many possibilities with this festival tool. With the right scripts, you could setup a secret little obscure email address that you can email everytime you want to post an audio blog entry.

For those who want to actually record their own voice, I once proposed that you can record a voice mail on your free SIPphone.com account and have it auto-forwarded to an email address where you can do what you please with the audio — e.g. have a script to automatically convert the wav file to mp3 and update to a blog.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:34:03 +0000

Just in case you ever get near a Mac OSX machine, do a ‘man say’ to see the man page on the built in ’say’ command. I think it’s derivative of the older Mac OS 9 speech synthesis engine and it’s pretty decent. It allows you to select voice, a file of text to be spoken (or a string in the command), and can output direct to the speaker or to an AIFF file. From there I guess you could mp3 it with any number of command line or GUI tools.

I used to love using it to spook my daughter while she was playing one of her edutainment CD-ROM games. Just a quick ssh into the iMac followed by “say Abby you should go to bed now” at the remote unix shell really had her going. ;-)

Podcasting … yet another reason for me to look into getting an iPod. But doesn’t Apple have enough of my $$ already? :-P

Hope you caught the eclipse tonight (between watching the game innings…) I did some more hacking of my webnotes stats feature while waiting for the eclipse to hit its peak. My first major dabbling in a dynamically rendered page (all in python, no less).

By: Marc Nozell

Marc Nozell — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:51:03 +0000

My bad!

By: Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:56:12 +0000

I think you mean “Robert Scoble.” ;)