Paul Fox wrote, on 2007-05-02 22:18: > chris wrote: > > On 5/1/07, Paul Fox <pgf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... > > > might not work in my particular case: > > > make_a_sound; > > > sleep 2; > > > make_a_sound; > > > sleep 3; > > > make_another_sound; > > > > Read: man text2wav > > Then learn how to pipe the output of text2wav into lame and you're done. > > not quite, though if you can tell me how to make it do what i > want, i'd love to hear. (i've been using festival for TTS for > about 10 years now, i'm sure there are features i'm unaware of.) > > the problem is that what my script does is something like: > echo "Starting sit-ups" | text2wave >/dev/dsp > sleep 1 > echo "ready, set, 1" | text2wave >/dev/dsp > sleep 2 > echo "ready, set, 2" | text2wave >/dev/dsp > sleep 2 > echo "ready, set, 3" | text2wave >/dev/dsp > ... > etc > > collecting all the output into one .wav file would lose the delays. > > if there were a way to get festival to insert delays using text markup > of some sort, then that would probably work. something like this: > > ( echo "Starting sit-ups" > echo "<tts>delay 1</tts>" > echo "ready, set, 1" > echo "<tts>delay 2</tts>" > echo "ready, set, 2" > echo "<tts>delay 2</tts>" > echo "ready, set, 3" ) | text2wave >/dev/dsp > > but i haven't figured out how to do that. > > (besides, i figured knowing how to capture the output of an alsa driver > would be useful information. :-) > > paul > =--------------------- > paul fox, pgf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (arlington, ma, where it's 45.1 degrees) If a .wav file is simply frames and no header, couldn't you create .wav files with the desired periods of silence, then concatenate your tts .wav's with "silent" .wav's to achieve the desired .wav file? Arthur. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
