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### VOCP and Text To Speech ###
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### (C) 2002 Patrick Deegan, Psychogenic.com ###
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VOCP, in combination with the festival speech synthesis engine can convert arbitrary text and emails to voice mail messages.
For details on retrieving and converting emails to voice mail, see the email-to-speech.txt file.
- Requirements
- Setup
- Use
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### Requirements ###
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To use the email to voicemail functionality, you need:
- the festival text to speech engine (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/)
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### Setup ###
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Get and install Festival as described at http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
Take note of where you install festival's text2wave program.
As root, edit /usr/share/vocp/bin/txttopvf and set the $txt2wavProg variable to the full path to the text2wave executable. Verify that $wav2pvfProg contains the correct path to the wavtopvf mgetty program.
Now you can test you setup. Do:
$ cat > foo.txt
From: niceguy@vocpsystem.com
Subject: hi there
Hello you are my nice friend.
^D
$ /usr/share/vocp/bin/txttopvf `pwd`/foo.txt `pwd`/foo.pvf
$ ls -l foo.*
-rw------- 1 user user 444744 Dec 5 13:48 foo.pvf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 79 Dec 5 13:47 foo.txt
Hooray. You can now play the pvf file, say by converting it to wav (pvftowav) or whatever.
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### Use ###
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Now that txttopvf is set up and working, you can use text-to-speech with VOCP in a few ways.
You can choose to have emails that are delivered to certain addresses converted to speech and dropped into your voice mail box. To do so, please take a look at the email-to-speech.txt file.
You can also setup command shell selections or script boxes that run a program which outputs some text. If the return value for these selections/boxes is set to 'tts', VOCP will convert the text on the fly and read the output to you over the phone. For more information on this, see the box-types.txt and command-shells.txt files.
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### Author ###
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This document was written by Pat Deegan, Dec 2002
and is distributed with the VOCP voice messaging system
http://www.VOCPsystem.com
(C) 2002 Patrick Deegan - All rights reserved.
http://www.psychogenic.com
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