No, that's one of my servers. In all honesty, though, a dedicated server or VPS is so cheap nowadays that it's almost not worth going with a shared host anymore for any "real" programming. Because if you pay for your own server (this one is less than $60 per month) and administer it yourself (or hire someone --- <plug shame="off">like me!</plug>) you can do a lot more than a shared host, of course. It could be possible, though, depending on your host's system configuration, to put a pre-compiled Festival binary in your home directory and calling it from there. Right off the top of my head, aside from security policies on the box, I can't think of any reason this wouldn't work. On 4/25/07, tedd <tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I had actually done something almost exactly like this as an experiment >a few months back at http://isawit.com/tts/login.php. The audio download >portion may no longer work, though.... I can't remember if I removed the >code from that specific server or not. It was just for my own fun and >edification, not any kind of project. > > What it did was allow someone to go to the site, type in a phrase, the >server converted it to audio (WAV) and the user could download it. However, >it could easily be embedded into the page. Then my desktop computer would >access the database on the server once per minute to read unread phrases >through a PHP/BASh hybrid to read aloud the phrases users entered. I had a >simple CLI email script on my end, too, that allowed me to zip a response to >the user in either audio or text format. > > I used Festival's TTS engine, which worked just fine for me. I did some >modifications to it and then wrote some simple script wrappers for it. > > Summary: check out Festival's TTS. The voices need work, but it's understandable, and it definitely does work. Far-out! Is it your server, or a hosted account, or does it not matter? Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com
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