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From: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: about text2wave (audio/festival)
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:38:51 +0200
"Jos=E9 M. Fandi=F1o"  <freebsd@fadesa.es> wrote:

> Hello list,
>=20
>  I was trying to get a spoken version of the FreeBSD handbook
> with the text2wave script (available with the festival speech
> synthesis system), but something is wrong with the default
> installation.
>=20
> That is what I get:
>=20
> > festival /usr/local/share/festival/examples/text2wave
> SIOD ERROR: unbound variable
> argv
> closing a file left open: /usr/local/share/festival/examples/text2wave
>=20
> anyone knows how to get this working?

I've not used the text2wave script but I have used festival to "read"
text:

	cat textfile | festival --tts

I'm not sure if that would suit your porposes but I thought it worth
mentioning.

Best regards,

Randy

--=20