Install festival and test it.

[Rachel]

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I installed through sudo apt-get install festival and it started running as above.

But I'm not sure how to test it and I doubt whether it's installed at all.

Finally, I have a PHP page with a text box, where I want to convert text-to-speech through festival. In the sense I need to listen to speech on my next oage with start,pause and stop options.

Is it possible?


Help me!

[D-cat]

On the command line, run festival --tts

Anything you type should be echoed back to you when you press enter.
[Ctrl + C] to exit.


That's the test... now you just have to find something that uses it (I run KDE, so I have KSayIt). I don't know about your PHP app, I'm not familiar with it. Sorry.