Flite In Collie?, Can't get text-to-speech program working Options

[doug-taylor]

Hi.

I've got a 5500 running Opie under OZ 3.5.3. I'm trying to get flite (Festival-lite, the text-to-speech program) running. I have downloaded both 1.1 and 1.2, but haven't had any luck getting either one to work properly. When I run a command like

echo "hello world"|flite

all I get is a squawk, sort of like the sound I made once when I got hit by a baseball in a very bad place. :-) If I try flite on a longish text file, I just get a series of squawks.

Is there something else I need to install, like a library or a voice file? The docs seem to indicate that all I need is the flite binary. Has anyone got this working on a 5500?

Incidently, the flite_time program (which speaks the time in a Scottish accent) runs great.

[sdjf]

I have flite on my Collie with Sharp ROM 2.38 and it works just fine. Ran some tests as haven't used it in a long time and the following formats all worked okay. Note that I backgrounded it so I could run lsof to see what files it was accessing while running:

# echo hello | flite
# cat myfile.txt | flite &
[1] 30187
# lsof | grep flite > lsofflite
# flite myfile.txt

Here's my output from "lsof" in case it is of interest to anyone.

CODE

flite     30187 root  cwd    DIR       31,1   48128       3523 /home/root
flite     30187 root  rtd    DIR       31,0
224         76 /
flite     30187 root  txt    REG       60,1 5906468     227630 /usr/mnt.rom/card/Flite/flite
flite     30187 root  mem    REG       31,0  105908    1293808 /lib/ld-2.2.2.so
flite     30187 root  mem    REG       31,0  163740    1922260 /lib/libm-2.2.2.so
flite     30187 root  mem    REG       31,0 1152468    1349952 /lib/libc-2.2.2.so
flite     30187 root    0r  FIFO        0,0
         588551 pipe
flite     30187 root    1u   CHR      3,176
            214 /dev/ttya0
flite     30187 root    2u   CHR      3,176
            214 /dev/ttya0
flite     30187 root    3u  unix 0xc1ce8520
         588504 socket
flite     30187 root    4u   CHR       29,0
             42 /dev/fb0
flite     30187 root    5u   CHR      2,176
            127 /dev/ptya0
flite     30187 root    6w   CHR       14,3
             38 /dev/dsp
flite     30187 root    7u   REG       31,1
   0       7076 /home/tmp/tmpfR7OuQf (deleted)
flite     30187 root    8u   REG       31,1
   0       7089 /home/tmp/tmpfyps3ql (deleted)
grep      30200 root    1w   REG       31,1
   0       6215 /home/root/lsofflite

I used it with an earbud plugged into the microphone jack. Did you also try adjusting the volume?

If you have those libraries, I could be wrong but I should think it would work as well on an Opie ROM. Do you want me to zip up my copy and put it somewhere for the heck of it?

sdjf