Festival Speech Synthesis Plugin
Integrates Festival speech synthesis software into Fawkes. You can use the SpeechSynthesisInterface or say skill to make the robot speak a user-supplied text.
Requires
BlackBoard Interfaces
None
Config Values
| Path | Type | Description | Default | R |
| /plugins/festival/voice | string | Voice to use for Festival speech synth, uses default if not set. | nitech_us_bdl_arctic_hts | |
| /plugins/festival/extra_code | string | Scheme code evaluated by Festival once on startup, cf. Festival manual. | ||
Provides
BlackBoard Interfaces
- SpeechSynthInterface::Festival
Compilation and Runtime Requirements
Note, that festival-devel is broken at least until Fedora 14. See Fedora Bug #242607 for the status of the fix.
Usage Instructions
Load the plugin, the robot will synthesize "Festival speech synth loaded". Then use the skiller? plugin, for example with the default test skill space, and call the say skill with arbitrary strings and hear them being synthesized.
