[Dapper] Best way to access speech?

[Brian Fahrlander]

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Peter Garrett wrote:
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> 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 ...

    Well, I've been researching.

    To speak the date:
    date '+%A, %B %e, %Y' | festival --tts

    To turn up the volume, it's tricky, but can be done, at least part
way.  This is under Dapper- not sure if it changes.

    This tidbit, in broken English, helped a lot:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/cgi-bin/cstr/lists.cgi?config=festival_faq&entry=arunning_festival/volume.html

    It requires a change to a file, kal_diphone.scm.  Locate it. It has
a path a mile long.  Change:

(utt.wave.rescale utt 2.6)))

to:

(utt.wave.rescale utt 1 t)))

    And in your home directory, create a .festivalrc file that contains:

      (set!  default_after_synth_hooks
        (list
          (lambda (utt)
            (utt.wave.rescale utt 1.0 t))))

    This seems to work, for me.  The first change changes for that
voice, the .festivalrc file changes it for all other voices.  Creepy,
complicated and not making a lot of sense, but the fix seems to work
rather well.

    Maybe it'll help someone on Google find the solution, too.
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