Audio::Wav - A modules for manipulating WAV Audio files

Audio::Wav is a collection of Perl modules that provide mechanisms to read, parse and write uncompressed Microsoft WAV audio files. It is a Pure Perl module, so it is extremely portable at the cost of performance.

How to install:
sudo apt-get install libaudio-wav-perl

or,
download the deb package from following link
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/perl/libaudio-wav-perl

Error:: Linux: can't open /dev/dsp

Go to your home directory and open the .festivalrc (if it is not there, just create it)
$cd
$sudo gedit .festivalrc
add the following line in this file and save:
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r $SR $FILE")
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)



Installing gnome speech in ubuntu

The first step in rebuilding gnome-speech is to make sure you've set up your build environment. obtain the source. The most up to date, official release can always be found here: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-speech/

At the time of this writing, the latest version is 0.4.7; However, as updates occur with relative frequency, it is a good idea to always confirm that you are getting the most current release before downloading. After downloading, extract the archive with a command similar to the following:

tar -xvf gnome-speech-0.4.7.tar.gz

apt-get build-dep gnome-speech


cd gnome-speech
./configure --prefix=/usr
make install

Errors:
1.checking for ORBIT... configure: error: Package requirements (ORBit-2.0 >= 2.3.94) were not met:

No package 'ORBit-2.0' found

Solution:You are supposed to install packages ending in dev for compiling so try installing liborbit2-dev and configure should stop complaining about orbit not found.

2.checking for gnome_speech... configure: error: Package requirements (bonobo-activation-2.0 >= 0.9.1 libbonobo-2.0 >= 1.97.0 ORBit-2.0 >= 2.3.94 gobject-2.0) were not met:

No package 'bonobo-activation-2.0' found
No package 'libbonobo-2.0' found

Solution: try installing libbonoboui2-dev from synaptic package manager

can't open /dev/dsp

If festival returns the following error message:

Linux: can't open /dev/dsp

Switch to ALSA output by adding these lines to the end of your .festivalrc file, or to /usr/share/festival/festival.scm (source):

(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r $SR $FILE")

Installing gcc with Cygwin

Installing gcc with Cygwin

http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~aamodt/ece242/cygwin.html

How to enable festival in orca?

Go in Orca Preferences --> Speech tab and change the "Speech System" to 'GNOME Speech Services' After that, you can change the "Speech synthesizer" to Festival.

But some times you do not get 'GNOME Speech Services' option in "Speech System" for that install
libgnome-speech7 :

$ sudo apt-get install libgnome-speech7

Note: You may get following error
E: crossplatformui: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Solution: Ignore the error. Festival will work


More about it in this thread:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/113136

It means only that "crossplatformui" is not managed by Ubuntu distro team, and that you have to check by yourself if current version is compatible with Lucid.
The risk applies only to "crossplatformui".
You have also to check in Synaptic is deposit for this package is always active.
Note: "crossplatformui" is a Reliance net connect usb driver.

Paul Taylor's publications

papers of taylor

http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pat40/