[Xastir] Fun with festival and VNC

[J. Lance Cotton]

Run a cable?

Since Festival doesn't run on windows (does it?), it's tough. If it did, you 
could install Festival on the Win98 box, tweak Xastir to connect to the 
specific IP address of the Win98 box instead of Localhost for Festival, make 
sure any firewall ports are open for whatever Festival server uses.

It's up to the sound card to make the sounds, so wherever you want the sound 
to come from, you've got to have a sound card there. Since there aren't any 
"network ready sound cards" out there, you almost have to also have the 
software which talks to the sounds actually *local* to the soundcard.

I suppose you could setup a shoutcast server or something along those lines on 
the FreeBSD box (assuming it's beefy enough to do real-time MP3 encoding). 
Plug a patch cord between line-out and line-in on the FreeBSD box... Run a 
shoutcast client on the Win98 box.

It's amazing that with seemingly everything with computers able to be detached 
physically, but connected network-ly (video->VNC, keyboard/console->ssh, 
window system->X, etc.) the sound system is so closely tethered to the actual 
user!

-Lance KJ5O

Jack Twilley wrote:

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> I run xastir on my FreeBSD server in a VNC session and I run the VNC
> client on my Win98 box.  What's the best way to get festival to talk
> out the speakers on my Win98 box?
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> Jack.
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