[PD] pd & text->speech

[David Merrill]

The CSLU Speech Toolkit uses festival in a "TTS server" manner.. It's 
wrapped in Tcl, and accessible via socket connections.  This could be a way 
to integrate festival more easily into pd, since it's already been Tcl-ified.

http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/toolkit/

-David Merrill

At 11:24 AM 6/12/2002 -0500, Michal Seta wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:27:57 +0200
><ydegoyon at free.fr> wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > the best text2speech software for linux
> > is undoubtedly festival . ..
> > then you can call it from PD with the shell
> > object.. no need to make an external in my opinion
> > except if you want to start a whole set of objects
> > where you could have formant generators, syllabi generators, ...
> > but that's a lot of work.
>
>Yeah, Chris has mentioned it (although I think his message has not made it 
>to the list...) and I've been playing with it since this morning.  Looks 
>like a great tool.
>
>Thanx for suggestions.
>
>./MiS

dmerrill at stanford.edu