RE: Headless Raspberry Pi, Tell me my IP - Text-to-speech working for you

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RE: Headless Raspberry Pi, Tell me my IP - Text-to-speech working for you

morgaine — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:55:12 GMT

That's pretty cool, Michael.

I like Festival, I've been using it daily for as long as I can remember, in two different roles: a text-to-speech plugin for an IRC client I hacked way back (via speechd and then into Festival), and in a simple ISP death monitor ("Blah blah ISP is down!") which targets my various providers.

The machines all have their audio outputs fed into a 16-channel analogue mixer which is then routed from the computer room via an S/PDIF coax driver into the lounge hifi a floor down and some rooms away, and from there the whole house can be fed as needed. It integrates the TTS messaging nicely with my various other domestic audio sources.

Networked TTS is actually a function that matches Pi's properties very nicely, because neither the audio nor the networking requirements are onerous, and the Pi can just sit there forever handling these functions at a very low duty cycle without consuming too much power.

I'm glad you blogged this, as it's so perfectly suited to Pi. I think I'll dedicate a Model B to networked TTS functions myself once they're ex-stock. Good suggestion! [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-69234106-79be-4cb3-856f-dc80e54091c1/contentimage_5F00_2516.png:16:16]

Morgaine.

RE: Headless Raspberry Pi, Tell me my IP - Text-to-speech working for you

fustini — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:25:15 GMT

Great idea! This would definitely be useful to me when a display or serial cable aren't available.