Spefically, in OSX, the "say" program does text to speech. For example, in C, you can use system("say hello world"); to make a program that says hello world. Check the man pages for more options -- you can set the voice, or have it output to a sound file rather than the speakers, for example. --Nick On Jul 9, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Joachim Bean wrote: > If you're using Mac OS X, it has speech features you should look at too. > > -- Joachim > > On Jul 9, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Blaise Gassend wrote: > >> Hi Travis, >> >> sound_play is what we currently have. For now it uses festival for text >> to speech. I have also noticed that espeak may be a viable alternative. >> If you find an open source alternative to festival that you like, or a >> festival voice that you prefer, let me know and I'll try to incorporate >> it into a future version of sound_play. >> >> Blaise >> >> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 18:00 -0700, Melonee Wise wrote: >>> Hi Travis - >>> >>> >>> Check out the sound_play node and the >>> tutorial http://www.ros.org/wiki/sound_play >>> >>> >>> -Melonee >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Travis Deyle >>> wrote: >>> Any suggestions on the best method for text-to-speech using >>> the PR2's speakers? What package (if any) is used internally >>> @ WG? >>> >>> ~Travis >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ros-users mailing list >>> ros-users@code.ros.org >>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Senior Engineer >>> Willow Garage >>> 68 Willow Rd. >>> Menlo Park, Ca 94025 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ros-users mailing list >>> ros-users@code.ros.org >>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users