Re: Server side speech

That's fine if you can find a shared host (as the OP states he's using) that's willing to install it on their servers. On 4/25/07, Brad Bonkoski <bbonkoski@mediaguide.com> wrote:

Daniel Brown wrote: Tedd, On all of the *nix boxes I use (and have used) I've had to install Festival manually, so I would definitely not say that it's commonly found on there.... especially for a server configuration. But it IS commonly available, so why not just make it a prerequisite for utilizing this utility? On 4/25/07, tedd <tedd@sperling.com> wrote:

At 2:07 PM -0500 4/25/07, Richard Lynch wrote:

On Wed, April 25, 2007 2:00 pm, tedd wrote:

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:

I have run "Festival" server side via PHP to generate audio snippets of spoken word. All you really need is one of the "desktop" packages to have a command line interface and http://php.net/exec

Richard: I've read about Festival and there are even some php routines that use it. But I'm doing this from/for a virtual host. I'm looking for a set of routines that I could place server-side and thus use to speak web text. I need something that I can share with others, not something special for just my site. -OR- Is there a standard *nix package that I could access via exec to do this? Is Festival commonly found on *nix? You see, what I'm thinking is, if I can get the code/technique, then I might be able to provide a way for non-technical types to have their sites speak. Maybe it's just foolish thinking, but I'm prone to that. :-) Thanks for your help. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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