Text to Speech - without Espeak- BASH

[surfstev]

Readplease is a vastly superior, Windows XP text to speech program.

I just got Readplease, to work in Linux MInt 11 after installing the program WINE. Next I downloaded Readplease and ran the file through WINE. It installed a Readplease icon on my desktop. I dragged and dropped it onto the task bar and it launches Readplease with a single click. After experimenting I discovered if you paste and copy your data into LiberOffice Writer first that Readplease reads it perfectly.

[DumbRacer]

YOU ARE AWESOME AT ALL IN EVERY SINGLE TIP I SAW THERE!

[DumbRacer]

YOU ARE AWESOME AT ALL I SAW THERE!

[SmartestViking]

Awesome! :)

[X3MVAN]

Cool. I have seen a similar script, sending sms via the cell phone operator's page. It showed you capcha using "display" (you had an episode about it earlier), User had to enter the capcha manually...  There was a proposal to use online OCR for it...

[bamdadkhan]

another nice script. :)

btw, are you familiar with festival?

[metalx1000]

@bamdadkhan: Played with is once or twice a few years back.

[metalx1000]

@mh3rn4nd3z3: Doubtful :/

[Mysticsam86]

The best way would to get the engine it self but this works very good to.

[analyzingfunny]

Well, that is neat. but it only allows you to play 25 seconds. What now?

[analyzingfunny]

@analyzingfunny ...what now... GENIUS!?

[metalx1000]

@analyzingfunny: Simple, break the input up. Maybe split it by "."

Thenk use something like ffmpeg to merge all the wav files together.

[thejoesteiger]

Yeah, over my head there lol. I'll stick with Natural Reader. And yes, i saw that for non-commercial uses only. I thought youtube def is a no. Especially ifi become a partner one day. That would def be considered commercial. Great video though.

[pithikoulis]

you could grep 'mono" ' with the space character included

[metalx1000]

@pithikoulis: See, I knew some one would think of a simple way of doing it. Thanks

[John8pie]

This is genious. Fantastic work, Kris, I am always impressed by the power of bash and how you implement it.

[enslavedexistencen0]

why are your videos so quiet?;(

anyways, interesting video:)

[pithikoulis]

@enslavedexistencen0 what did you expect? disco lights and music?

[metalx1000]

@enslavedexistencen0: People have said this to me before. I've used different computers, Different mics, even boosted the volume of my videos. The Audio sound fine on my end. I have found the the best solution to this that most computers have either a volume button or knob on it. Turns out you can make things louder by using that :)

I'm just kidding. But really, the audio on my end sounds fine and I've tried different computers and the audio sounds fine to me. O'well.

[analyzingfunny]

@enslavedexistencen0 sounds great to me

[sidhartRON]

text to Speech right?