[SOUND] speechd lets your Computer speak

Message

panserg · Post by **panserg** » Fri May 09, 2003 2:27 pm

BradB wrote:could you hook it up so that kernel logs got spoken out?
Probably annoying, but maybe fun

I've hooked to speak the Subject and From fields for all my incoming email. But make sure you do it AFTER you filter spam out

riggagoogoo · Post by **riggagoogoo** » Wed May 14, 2003 10:20 am

I've hooked to speak the Subject and From fields for all my incoming email. But make sure you do it AFTER you filter spam out

How did you do this???

panserg · Post by **panserg** » Wed May 14, 2003 3:14 pm

riggagoogoo wrote:
I've hooked to speak the Subject and From fields for all my incoming email. But make sure you do it AFTER you filter spam out
How did you do this???

Do you know procmail or maildrop or any mail-filtering program?

The idea is that when it is filtering a message, it remembers Subject and From (and/or other) fields in variables and then calling a simple shell script with arguments from those variables. The shell script takes arguments, formats the final text message based on stings from arguments and pass it to festival.

A mail filter script is very specific to mail-filtering program you use. It's also specific to what exactly you are doing when filtering your messages. The shell script is specific to what final output do you want to hear.

I had it before with procmail/sendmail on RH. You bet it's gone. Now I am going to reimplement it it with maildrop/postfix on Gentoo. If (in case of more free time) I'll do it as a generic script (not specific to my needs, but customizable for them) then I'll submit the portage commit request in Bugzilla. otherwise I can forward my script to you privately.

Oopsz · Post by **Oopsz** » Wed May 14, 2003 6:24 pm

puke wrote: Can this use the pc-speaker?

I have a server that sits in the corner without a monitor, I would like it to talk when there are problems, but I don't want to have to load sound drivers etc.

try patching this oss driver into your kernel

beza1e1 · Post by **beza1e1** » Thu May 15, 2003 10:05 am

I just want to say thanks for this tip

It is so nice, if your PC wishes you a good night ...

nephros · Post by **nephros** » Thu May 15, 2003 11:35 am

thanks, that thing is way cool.

God, this reminds me of old Amiga times!

Now, anyone know how to set up other languages.

I downloaded the German deX packages, and unzipped them to /usr/lib/mbrola/voices/german/de{1..5},
edited voices.scm to include "de1" on top of the list

Code: Select all

(defvar default-voice-priority-list
  '(de1
    en1_mbrola
    ...

and edited festivalrc to:
(set! voice_default 'voice_de1)

but that does not work...

riggagoogoo · Post by **riggagoogoo** » Thu May 15, 2003 2:33 pm

panserg

Sounds quite cool, I would appreciate a copy of your script however if your almost done with an ebuild I will wait till its made available

Cheers

Rigg

Vi Rocks · Post by **Vi Rocks** » Thu May 15, 2003 6:05 pm

There was a startup script called "audio_message" provided earlier on in this thread, which plays a message during the booting and shutting down of gentoo.
But i have a question for it.
According to gentoo manuals the starting and stopping is in alphabetical order of scripts present in /etc/runlevels/default.

I use ALSA for soue. Since "audio_message" comes later in alphabetical order than "alsa", during boot "alsa" startup script runs first and then "audio_message". This is the correct way. But during shutdown alsa shuts down before audio_message so , Even when audio_message's stop fuction is called , there is no sound ?
Any work around for this. Or better still instead of booting, can this be done per user login/logout. ?
thanks

BeaTtheMeaT666 · Post by **BeaTtheMeaT666** » Fri May 16, 2003 9:32 pm

nephros wrote:thanks, that thing is way cool.
God, this reminds me of old Amiga times!

Me too

I remember calling people on the phone and let the computer talk to them ...

Speechd this is so f***ing fun,
i just edited /etc/syslog.conf and
changed /var/log/messages to /dev/speech .

enjoy,

bobo

carrett · Post by **carrett** » Mon May 19, 2003 2:59 am

hey, this is awesome. when i do: echo "Hello world" > /dev/speech
the system just sits there, no sound comes out and i have to ctl-C to stop the command. however, echo "Hello world" | festival --tts -
works perfectly, anybody know how to make the device work?

riggagoogoo · Post by **riggagoogoo** » Mon May 19, 2003 8:24 am

I had this problem too at first however when i did a kill artsd and ran it again it worked fine (I assume your running arts?).

There is a good post on the board on how to make OSS work with Arts, check it out here:

Code: Select all

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=15110

Hope this helps

Rigga

carrett · Post by **carrett** » Mon May 19, 2003 8:27 am

i'm not running artsd

thanks though!

barrowaj · Post by **barrowaj** » Tue May 27, 2003 5:11 pm

I am having the same problem. The festival server gives:

Code: Select all

prophet root # festival --server
socket: bind failed

And so therefore speechd cannot connect to it. I saw people having this problem earlier in this thread but don't beleive anyone posted a solution. I guess it has something to do with a port not being available, and I know nothing of how ports are configured on linux.

Can someone who has gotten this to work please offer some advice?

rhodyne · Post by **rhodyne** » Fri May 30, 2003 6:55 am

This is fun. I got to messing around with it and I made a few adjustments to the scripts shown here.
1st my /etc/init.d/speechd init script looks like

Code: Select all

#!/sbin/runscript

start() {
	ebegin "Starting speechd"
	start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/speechd.pid --exec /usr/bin/speechd
	eend $? "Failed to start speechd"

stop() {
	ebegin "Stopping speechd"
	start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/speechd.pid
	killall festival            # the above pid only references the parent
	eend $? "Failed to stop speechd"

restart() {
	svc_stop                    # gentoo rc-scripts
	sleep 1                     # recommended process 
	svc_start
}

Then I added vocal alerts to the local scripts
/etc/conf.d/local.start

Code: Select all

if [ -e "/dev/speech" ]
then
	say "Gentoo system $HOSTNAME is ready" && sleep 4 && saytime
else
	echo 'Error .. speechd not loaded'
fi

and /etc/conf.d/local.stop

Code: Select all

RUNLV=`runlevel | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
if [ -e "/dev/speech" ]
then
	if [ "$RUNLV" == "0" ]
	then
		say $HOSTNAME is shutting down" && sleep 3
	elif [ "$RUNLV" == "6" ]
	then
		say $HOSTNAME is rebooting now && sleep 3
	else
		echo "Found invalid runlevel"
	fi
else
	echo 'Error .. speechd not loaded'
fi

And I removed the text echo from the say script that bassvandijk put in this post earlier because I didn't want it.

Once I get this all setup this system goes headless.

I'm still working on getting a login/logout response that doesn't generate errors for remote logins.

rhodyne · Post by **rhodyne** » Sat May 31, 2003 3:26 am

Well I can get a global login welcome message by adding some lines to /etc/profile

Code: Select all

if [ -e "/dev/speech" ]
then
        if [ `/usr/bin/whoami` = 'root' ]
        then
                say "Welcome to $HOSTNAME ROOT"
                say "Please minimize your time logged in this way"
                sleep 6
                saytime
        else
                say "Welcome to $HOSTNAME $(whoami)"
                say "Enjoy your stay"
        fi
else
        echo 'Error .. speechd not loaded'
fi

so now I get vocal "warning" that someone is logged in. All vocals happen at the server, of course.

If you have a lot of logins close together you will get errors on some of them; you might want to shorten the speech to something like "$(whoami) logged in". I also like using the /usr/bin/saytime script that festival installs by default to help identify root logins as different.

OneOfOne · Post by **OneOfOne** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 3:27 pm

it doesnt compile with gcc-3.3

...
peace

LGW · Post by **LGW** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 8:57 am

OK, it's great. I'm not yet sure what to use it for, but it's great

nalin · Post by **nalin** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 10:14 pm

listen to the clipboard (in konqueror):
select klipper->actions enabled
select klipper->configure klipper
under general tab enable "Replay Actions..."
under actions tab add an action
use a regexp like "^[ \n\r\t0-9a-zA-Z]*$"
right click select add command
use command "echo %s > /dev/speech"

To give the action and command better names:
nano -w ~/.kde/share/config/klipperrc
change <add action> and <add command> to something like "text" and "say it", klipper needs be restarted to take effect for the values

wrs4 · Post by **wrs4** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 12:49 am

Hey guys, this is pretty cool. I decided to see if I could have a little more fun with it. I wrote the following script to parse out the date and run it; works fine. The next step is to see if I can't run it from cron for something like an alarm clock. Anyhow, here is the script. You'll need Perl's Date::Format module installed to use it:

Code: Select all

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

use Date::Format;

################################################################################
#
################################################################################

# This script is designed to convert standard date text to something that
# festival can play in a human-recognizable manner.  I could have been fancy
# and used GetOpts to make it more configurable, but I think it does the job
# as-is.  If you have any bug reports, questions, comments, etc. email me at
# william@free.house.cx with "festival script" in the subject line so I know
# what you're talking about :)
#
#   William Sutton
#   william@free.house.cx
#
# This script is licensed as freeware, with no guarantee of fitness for any
# purpose beyond that expressed in the foregoing.

# to see the command we'll execute, run ./script_name 1
my $debug       = $ARGV[0] || 0;

# configure the appropriate binary paths if somewhere else
my $festival    = "/usr/bin/festival";
my $echo        = "/bin/echo";

# We want text in the format of "Day of week, Numeric day Month Year, Hours
# Minutes, Time Zone
my $date_text   = digit2txt (time2str ('%A, %e %B %Y, %H %M, %Z',time));
my $command     = "$echo \"(SayText \\\"$date_text\\\")\" | $festival";

# debug if requested
if ($debug == 1)
{
    print "\n\n";
    print "*** Playing => $command ***\n";
    print "\n\n";
}

# play the text string
qx { $command };

################################################################################
#
################################################################################

sub digit2txt
{
    my $text    = shift;

    # Ordinary human-recognizable speech values rather than, say,
    # "one nine" for "nineteen"
    my %numbers = (
        teens   => [ 'ten','eleven',
                     'twelve','thirteen',
                     'fourteen','fifteen',
                     'sixteen','seventeen',
                     'eighteen','nineteen'
                   ],
        tens    => [ 'twenty', 'thirty',
                      'forty', 'fifty',
                      'sixty', 'seventy',
                      'eighty', 'ninety'
                   ],
        digits  => [ 'one','two',
                     'three','four',
                     'five','six',
                     'seven','eight',
                     'nine'
                   ]
    );

    # if we have a four digit pattern (e.g., the year)
    if ($text =~ /(\d{4})/)
    {
        my ($thousands,$hundreds,$tens,$ones) = split (//, $1);

        # convert thousands to text
        my $new_text = $numbers{digits}[$thousands - 1] . " thousand ";

        # likewise, hundreds if non-zero
        if ($hundreds > 0)
        {
            $new_text .= $numbers{digits}[$hundreds - 1] . " hundred ";
        }

        # recurse and parse the tens portion; I love recursion!
        $new_text .= digit2txt ("$tens$ones");

        # substitute new text for old and exit block
        $text =~ s/$1/$new_text/;
    }
    # if we have a two digit pattern (e.g., hours, minutes)
    elsif ($text =~ /(\d{2})/)
    {
        my ($tens,$ones) = split (//, $1);

        my $new_text;

        # if we have 1-9, ...
        if ($tens == 0 && $ones > 0)
        {
            $new_text = $numbers{digits}[$ones - 1];
        }
        # or if we have 20-99, ...
        elsif ($tens > 1)
        {
            $new_text = $numbers{tens}[$tens - 2];

            if ($ones > 0)
            {
                $new_text .= " " . $numbers{digits}[$ones - 1];
            }
        }
        # or if we have 10-19, ...
        elsif ($tens == 1)
        {
            $new_text = $numbers{teens}[$ones - 1];
        }

        # substitute new text for old and exit block
        $text =~ s/$1/$new_text/;
    }

    # if we still have digits in the text, recurse and parse
    # otherwise, just return
    return ($text =~ /\d+/ ? digit2txt ($text) : $text);
}

wrs4 · Post by **wrs4** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 1:30 am

Got it to cron, going to hunt up the volume docs someone mentioned earlier. Incidentally, while I was at it, I made a copy of the above script and tweaked it to handle general commands from the command line:

Code: Select all

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

################################################################################
#
################################################################################

# I could have been fancy and used GetOpts to make it more configurable, but
# I think it does the job as-is.  If you have any bug reports, questions,
# comments, etc. email me at william@free.house.cx with "festival script" in
# the subject line so I know what you're talking about :)
#
#   William Sutton
#   william@free.house.cx
#
# This script is licensed as freeware, with no guarantee of fitness for any
# purpose beyond that expressed in the foregoing.

# to see the command we'll execute, run ./script_name text 1
my $exec	= $ARGV[0] || "No text specified";
my $debug       = $ARGV[1] || 0;

# configure the appropriate binary paths if somewhere else
my $festival    = "/usr/bin/festival";
my $echo        = "/bin/echo";

my $text = $exec;
$text =~ s/ .*//;

# We want text in the format of "Day of week, Numeric day Month Year, Hours
# Minutes, Time Zone
my $command     = "$echo \"(SayText \\\"$text\\\")\" | $festival";

# debug if requested
if ($debug == 1)
{
    print "\n\n";
    print "*** Playing => $command ***\n";
    print "\n\n";
}

# play the text string
qx { $command };
qx { $exec };

Then, since I have enlightenment running, I did the following to my .enlightenment/user_apps.menu file:

Code: Select all

"User Application List'"
"Eterm" NULL exec "/scripts/festival-command.pl 'Eterm --trans --shade 30 --tint 0x880088 --visual-bell --buttonbar=0 --title Eterm'"
"nedit" NULL exec "/scripts/festival-command.pl 'nedit'"
"The GIMP" NULL exec "/scripts/festival-command.pl 'gimp'"
"Gaim" NULL exec "/scripts/festival-command.pl 'gaim'"
"Imlib Settings" NULL exec "/scripts/festival-command.pl 'imlib_config'"
"X-Chat" NULL exec "/scripts/festival-command.pl 'xchat-2'"
"XMMS" NULL exec "/scripts/festival-command.pl 'xmms'"
"XCDRoast" NULL exec "/scripts/festival-command.pl 'xcdroast'"
"Gnome Volume Control" NULL exec "/scripts/festival-command.pl 'gnome-volume-control'"
"Gkrellm" NULL exec "/scripts/festival-command.pl 'gkrellm2'"
"Xscreensaver" NULL exec "/scripts/festival-command.pl 'xscreensaver'"

(I keep my personal scripts in /scripts, add salt or pepper to taste)

wrs4 · Post by **wrs4** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 2:05 am

Did anyone figure out how to adjust the volume on this?

rhodyne · Post by **rhodyne** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 3:39 am

I use ermixer to control mix levels. It's a console app with next to no overhead. Save a few different profiles and you can script volume changes

wrs4 · Post by **wrs4** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 6:05 am

Hmm...I get about the same thing if I run gnome-volume-control but with mouse too....

If I want the speechd to always be louder than the music, etc, what do my settings need to be? Right now I have Vol at max and everything else at default.

Gio · Post by **Gio** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 3:36 pm

In bugzilla #22053 I updated festival and speech-tools to compile on gcc-3.2.3. Also did some seperation and clean up - comments welcome.

** update ** compiles on gcc 3.3 too.

bassvandijk · Post by **bassvandijk** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 5:32 pm

wrs4 wrote:Did anyone figure out how to adjust the volume on this?

See the FAQ at the festival website:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/cgi-bin/lists. ... olume.html

[SOUND] speechd lets your Computer speak

Re: This may be a naff question, but..

This is cool,

One question

Re: This is cool,

Same Problem Here

festival and speech-tools update in bugzilla