Re: Server side speech

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   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

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