On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:05:23PM +0200, Alessio Ciregia wrote: > 2017-07-17 19:55 GMT+02:00 Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 03:32:15PM +0200, Alessio Ciregia wrote: > > > I wrote a very short draft about a geeky command that we can find in > > > Fedora: espeak. > > > > > > Espeak is speech synthesizer, a command line tool that can speak text > > from > > > a file or from standard input. > > > > > > There is not much to say about such command: some ideas, an example. > > > In any case I find it amusing, but at the same time useful to raise > > talking > > > Nagios alerts from my laptop, like a nerd. :-) > > > > I like this concept, but what ideas and examples are you thinking to > > include? The talking alerts are an interesting use case. It would be > > nice if you could describe briefly how espeak works, any limitations a > > user might hit, and 1-2 additional use cases. That should help fill > > out the article to a reasonable length. > > > Well, I'm not an expert in voice synthesizing so I can not deep into many > technical details. > In the other hand I can provide some examples and list some of the > available options. > Espeak is a text-to-speech tool, so you can let him read a text file. You > can tail a log file, grep for a keyword, and pipe all to espeak: in that > way you can listen to log messages of interest. > Obviously it has limitations, in some cases the voice is not clear, > specially in non English languages, and it looks like a talking computer in > an old sci-fi movie. > Said that, I think that it is a fun tool that deserves to be tried. * Going over a couple important options could be a good addition. We try to avoid doing a dump of all options; rather, aim for a curated list of just a few important options a user might want, and how they're useful. * The kind of information you're talking about here is great for the article too. Also check out our tips page: https://fedoramagazine.org/tips-for-articles/ -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
