[geeks] Q: Regarding Linux in K-12 education

[Phil Stracchino]

On 01/17/10 18:55, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Sunday 17 January 2010, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Good example.  I've been looking for a long time for a decent
>> speech-recognition (and vice versa, text-to-speech) application for
>> anything but Windows.  I've yet to find either.  (Yes, I know about
>> Festival for test-to-speech.  I tried to set it up once.  I got
>>  nowhere.)
> 
> Huh?
> 
> root at comet:~# apt-get install festival
> ....
> root at comet:~# festival
> Festival Speech Synthesis System 1.96:beta July 2004
> Copyright (C) University of Edinburgh, 1996-2004. All rights reserved.
> For details type `(festival_warranty)'
> festival> (SayText "Hello there.")
> #<Utterance 0xb69f09f8>
> festival>
> 
> Are you using it properly?  It works fine for me on Debian...

It was a while back.  I might try it again.  :)


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