[Xastir] Festival & Speech

[Amateur Radio WB8NUT]

Looks like a lot of us are learning. Festival is not as important to me 
as long as I have the audio alerts working.  My main concern is getting 
an audio announcement when I have an incoming message or if there are 
weather warnings.

 From what I believe, Festival will read the call of a new station, 
maybe the message text, etc.  Just a bit fancier than the vanilla audio 
alerts.  I was just trying to figure out how to get Festival speech 
working as more of a learning process.  Of all the times I have ventured 
into Xastir over the past two years, this is the farthest I have ever 
gotten towards getting everything working and understanding it. Festival 
is my last hurdle.

Duffy
www.wb8nut.com

Robbie, wa9inf wrote:
> Thanks Duffy,
>
> That clears that up, so what do I use Festival and Xastir with? As you 
> know, I am just getting my feet wet here... I must have misread the 
> instructions, so back to the reading...
>
> Robbie
>
> Amateur Radio WB8NUT wrote:
>
>> The audio alerts and speech with festival are two different items. 
>> One has nothing to do with the other.  I have sounds working fine 
>> also. Festival is not required to play the sounds.
>>
>> Duffy
>> www.wb8nut.com
>>
>> Robbie, wa9inf wrote:
>>
>>> Interesting. The wav files I downloaded this afternoon and put them 
>>> in the sounds folder. Started working without starting Festival. I 
>>> did get an error, unable to open Festival socket.. Worked anyway..
>>>
>>> I then shut Xastir and festival down, rebooted the computer and this 
>>> time started festival first then Xastir, got the same error and it 
>>> still played the "clear" sounding wav files??? I did the shutdown, 
>>> reboot thingy, and ran Xastir witout Festival, it stills speaks nice 
>>> clear perfect English..
>>>
>>> What did I do right?  Xastir 1.8.3 and Fedora Core 5 Pentium II 300 
>>> mghz
>>>
>>> Robbie
>>>
>>> Curt, WE7U wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> Yea, if it's a true SB16 and not a clone card from somebody else,
>>>>> you've probably got real hardware there.  One of the more compatible
>>>>> cards you can get.
>>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What are you running Xastir on?  Any emulation happening?  I know
>>>> you mentioned VMWare before, so just wondering if you're trying to
>>>> run Festival on Linux under VMWare or something like that.
>>>>
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