[ros-users] Text-to-Speech

[Nicholas Butko]

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 <blaise at willowgarage.com> 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 <beambot at gmail.com>
>>> 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
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