Daniel Brown wrote:
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.
I guess I am just thinking the alternative is creating your own package
and using that, which again would force an external entity for the
system to support, unless there is some way for PHP to do text-to-speech
translation, which seems way out of scope for a scripting language....
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
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