Re: Server side speech

Ditto on Festival. I've used it in the past as a trigger on MUD text to vocalize messages sent by players. Cheers, Rob. On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 15:08 -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: > I had actually done something almost exactly like this as an experiment > a few months back at http://isawit.com/tts/login.php. The > audio download > portion may no longer work, though.... I can't remember if I removed the > code from that specific server or not. It was just for my own fun and > edification, not any kind of project. > > What it did was allow someone to go to the site, type in a phrase, the > server converted it to audio (WAV) and the user could download it. However, > it could easily be embedded into the page. Then my desktop computer would > access the database on the server once per minute to read unread phrases > through a PHP/BASh hybrid to read aloud the phrases users entered. I had a > simple CLI email script on my end, too, that allowed me to zip a response to > the user in either audio or text format. > > I used Festival's TTS engine, which worked just fine for me. I did some > modifications to it and then wrote some simple script wrappers for it. > > Summary: check out Festival's TTS. The voices need work, but it's > understandable, and it definitely does work. > > On 4/25/07, tedd <tedd@sperling.com> wrote: > > > > Hi gang: > > > > Most "text to speech" techniques concentrate on making the browser or > > desktop application do the translation of web text to speech. For > > example, there are several listed here: > > > > http://www.oatsoft.org/Software/listing/Repository > > > > However, server-side "text to speech" is possible by delivering the > > sound to the browser via EMBED or BGSOUND tags -- an example of this > > can be seen here: > > > > http://nihseniorhealth.gov/ > > > > I contacted NIH, but they said that they hired a firm to do that for > > them and as such the source code is not subject to the freedom of > > information act. > > > > So, my question is -- is there anywhere I could get free code to do that? > > > > Thanks, > > > > tedd > > -- > > ------- > > http://sperling.com nq%‰´ > > ¯råwD¥úë©ùhttp://ancientstones.com > > http://earthstones.com > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'