Re: Server side speech

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 16:17 -0400, tedd 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. "You can't stand on the shoulders of giants if you don't invite them to the party" -- Me :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | 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. | `------------------------------------------------------------'