The CSLU Speech Toolkit uses festival in a "TTS server" manner.. It's wrapped in Tcl, and accessible via socket connections. This could be a way to integrate festival more easily into pd, since it's already been Tcl-ified.
http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/toolkit/
-David Merrill
At 11:24 AM 6/12/2002 -0500, Michal Seta wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:27:57 +0200 ydegoyon@free.fr wrote:
hi,
the best text2speech software for linux is undoubtedly festival . .. then you can call it from PD with the shell object.. no need to make an external in my opinion except if you want to start a whole set of objects where you could have formant generators, syllabi generators, ... but that's a lot of work.
Yeah, Chris has mentioned it (although I think his message has not made it to the list...) and I've been playing with it since this morning. Looks like a great tool.
Thanx for suggestions.
./MiS
dmerrill@stanford.edu