From: Terry Klarich <terry_at_klarich.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:40:42 -0500

I am using the rpm that was installed on my fedora core 5 system.

However, if you have the source, you should be able to unpack it in a
directory, do a ./configure, make and then make install.

In particular, the script uses text2wave which takes ascii text and converts it
to a wave form.

Terry
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:39:38 -0500you write:
>Hi,
>
>I found ware I can download Festible but it seems to be source. Is
>that what I need? If not can you help a newby out?
>At 03:40 PM 6/13/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>>thanks
>>
>>I didn't include the script. Here is my second try.
>>
>>Hello all:
>>Here is a ksh script which will build those _dirname.talk and
>>[filename].talk files we have all come to love. It Uses lame and
>>festival.
>>
>>Please let me know if you use it. I will accept bug reports and
>>modification requests.
>>
>>It seems to work fine on my linux machine on my iaudio x5l.
>>
>>Terry
>>
>>----------CUT HERE----------
>>##!/bin/ksh
>>##voicebox.ksh
>>##version 1.0 06/13/2006
>>##Terry Klarich
>>##Use at your own risk
>>##There is no copyright. I would ask that you just leave my name in
>>for any future modifications
>>##This script will create the _dirname.talk and [filename].talk
>>files used to make rockbox speak the directories and filenames on
>>##your juke box.
>>##You will need lame and festival
>>##usage: voicebox.ksh <directory>
>>
>>echo "looking for the lame command"
>>which lame
>>if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
>> echo "Couldn't find the lame command: terminating"
>> exit 1
>>fi
>>echo "looking for the text2wave command"
>>which text2wave
>>if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
>> echo "Couldn't find the text2wave command: Please install
>> festival: terminating"
>> exit 1
>>fi
>>if [ -z "$1" ] ; then
>> echo "usage: voicebox.ksh <dirname>"
>> echo "<dirname> is the root directory of your media files."
>> echo "example: voicebox.ksh /mnt/mp3"
>> exit 1
>>fi
>>if [ ! -d "$1" ] ; then
>> echo "$1 doesn't exist"
>> exit 1
>>fi
>>echo "building voice clips for all directories."
>>find $1 -type d -print |
>>while read i ; do
>> if [ ! -f "$i/_dirname.talk" ] ; then
>> name=`echo $i | sed 's:^.*/::'`
>> echo $name
>> echo $name | text2wave -otype aiff -o /tmp/output -
>> lame --quiet --preset voice /tmp/output $i/_dirname.talk
>> rm /tmp/output
>> fi
>>done
>>echo "building voice clips for files."
>>find $1 -type f \( -name '*.mp3' -o -name '*.wav' \) -print |
>>while read i ; do
>> j="$i.talk"
>> if [ ! -f "$j" ] ; then
>> name=`echo $i | sed 's:^.*/::'`
>> echo $name
>> echo $name | text2wave -otype aiff -o /tmp/output -
>> lame --quiet --preset voice /tmp/output "$j"
>> rm /tmp/output
>> fi
>>done
>>
>>
>>
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>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>Kevin Doucet
>contactme_at_kevindoucet.com
>
>
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Received on 2006-06-14