That's fine if you can find a shared host (as the OP states he's using) that's willing to install it on their servers. On 4/25/07, Brad Bonkoski <bbonkoski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Daniel Brown wrote: > Tedd, > > On all of the *nix boxes I use (and have used) I've had to install > Festival manually, so I would definitely not say that it's commonly > found on > there.... especially for a server configuration. > But it IS commonly available, so why not just make it a prerequisite for utilizing this utility? > > > On 4/25/07, tedd <tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> At 2:07 PM -0500 4/25/07, Richard Lynch wrote: >> >On Wed, April 25, 2007 2:00 pm, tedd wrote: >> >> However, server-side "text to speech" is possible by delivering the >> >> sound to the browser via EMBED or BGSOUND tags -- an example of this >> >> can be seen here: >> > >> >I have run "Festival" server side via PHP to generate audio snippets >> >of spoken word. >> > >> >All you really need is one of the "desktop" packages to have a command >> >line interface and http://php.net/exec >> >> Richard: >> >> I've read about Festival and there are even some php routines that >> use it. But I'm doing this from/for a virtual host. I'm looking for a >> set of routines that I could place server-side and thus use to speak >> web text. >> >> I need something that I can share with others, not something special >> for just my site. >> >> -OR- >> >> Is there a standard *nix package that I could access via exec to do >> this? Is Festival commonly found on *nix? >> >> You see, what I'm thinking is, if I can get the code/technique, then >> I might be able to provide a way for non-technical types to have >> their sites speak. Maybe it's just foolish thinking, but I'm prone to >> that. :-) >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> Cheers, >> >> tedd >> -- >> ------- >> http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > >
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