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title: festival Text-To-Speech
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layout: default
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created: 2009-02-22 00:53:11 +0100
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updated: 2009-02-22 00:54:41 +0100
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toc: false
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tags:
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- know-how
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- software
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- linux
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- sound
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---
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Simultaneous playback
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=====================
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The `festival` text-to-speech synthesizer seems to use normal ALSA playback instead of PulseAudio. This leads to it
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failing when there's already something playing. E.g. if you're listening to music with *Rhythmbox*, *festival* fails
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with this message:
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Linux: can't open /dev/dsp
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To make it use PulseAudio, we can re-route the audio through the `pacat` utility as proposed on [this bugreport](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467531).
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Just add these few lines to your `/usr/share/festival/init.scm`:
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~~~
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(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "pacat --channels=1 --rate=$SR $FILE")
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(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
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(Parameter.set 'Audio_Required_Format 'raw)
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~~~
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**Note:** I had to use `raw` as the required format since the `snd` from the bugreport gave me loud noise instead of
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speech. `raw` works fine.
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Announcing system errors
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========================
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On [fedorabook.com](http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/42-Productive-Monday-Festival-Speech) I
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found this little script which will read every new line from `/var/log/messages`:
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{% highlight bash %}
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#!/bin/bash
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tail -0f /var/log/messages | sed "s/^[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*: //" | while read LINE
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#tail -0f /var/log/syslog | sed "s/^[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*: //" | while read LINE
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#tail -0f /var/log/auth.log | sed "s/^[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*: //" | while read LINE
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#tail -0f /var/log/user.log | sed "s/^[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*: //" | while read LINE
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do
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echo $LINE
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echo $LINE | festival --tts
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sleep 0.75
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done
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{% endhighlight %}
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