[Dapper] Best way to access speech?

[Brian Fahrlander]

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Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:32:37 -0500

>>     Has anyone done something like this?
> 
> Try something like this:
> 
> echo "Take your pills" | festival --tts
> 
> Or put something in a file:
> 
> echo "take your pills" >> pill-reminder
> 
> cat pill-reminder | festival --tts
> 
> For a one-off reminder, use the "at" command
> 
> at 4 pm <enter>
> at> cat pill-reminder | festival --tts <enter>
> at> <EOT>
>  ( ctrl +D on a separate line)
> 
> You could put this in a cron job that calls the command as a script, I
> guess ( I haven't tried it, but you get the idea I hope)
> 
> You can try
> 
> date | festival --tts
> 
> for the time - but it isn't very clear here :) Someone will no doubt have
> a better way to do this ...

    Not a problem; date +%H, etc will make that happen.  I'm not sure
why this wasn't so clear from the docs I was using- I couldn't care less
about voices, inflections and the like until IT STARTS WORKING, ya know?

    (Now that it is, is there any way to make it louder?)

    ...and thanks for the response!
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