Richard Caley <R.Caley@ed.ac.uk>
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This is a simple perl extension module which provides a way for perl programs to speak using a speech synthesiser. The interface is intended to allow any synthesiser to be plugged in.
An implementation using the festival speech synthesiser is included. For more information about festival, see:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html
If you have problemsw with or suggestions about this module, please sign up for and mail to the festival-talk mailing list, see:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/lists.html
In addition to the generic Speech::Synthesiser interface specific interface to festival is provided as Speech::Festival, thi allows more control of the synthesiser.
Some simple example scripts are included to show how it works.
festival_test.prl
Uses the scheme interface.
festival_test [auto|loop] scheme1 scheme2 ...
Sends each of the scheme forms to festival
synthesiser_test.prl
Uses the text to speech interface.
synthesiser_test text1 text2 ...
Synthesizes each text in turn, choosing voices randomly.
festival_panel.prl
Is a Tk graphical interface allowing you to
enter text, select a voice and hear the speech.
Run with -q if you don't want it to be quite so
chatty.
Dispite the name, it's not actually festival specific,
if someone implements an interface to another
synthesiser it would be trivial to allow access to it
from this script.