I wrote a very short draft about a geeky command that we can find in Fedora: espeak.
Espeak is speech synthesizer, a command line tool that can speak text from a file or from standard input.
There is not much to say about such command: some ideas, an example. In any case I find it amusing, but at the same time useful to raise talking Nagios alerts from my laptop, like a nerd. :-)
Ciao A.
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 03:32:15PM +0200, Alessio Ciregia wrote:
I wrote a very short draft about a geeky command that we can find in Fedora: espeak.
Espeak is speech synthesizer, a command line tool that can speak text from a file or from standard input.
There is not much to say about such command: some ideas, an example. In any case I find it amusing, but at the same time useful to raise talking Nagios alerts from my laptop, like a nerd. :-)
I like this concept, but what ideas and examples are you thinking to include? The talking alerts are an interesting use case. It would be nice if you could describe briefly how espeak works, any limitations a user might hit, and 1-2 additional use cases. That should help fill out the article to a reasonable length.
2017-07-17 19:55 GMT+02:00 Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 03:32:15PM +0200, Alessio Ciregia wrote:
I wrote a very short draft about a geeky command that we can find in Fedora: espeak.
Espeak is speech synthesizer, a command line tool that can speak text
from
a file or from standard input.
There is not much to say about such command: some ideas, an example. In any case I find it amusing, but at the same time useful to raise
talking
Nagios alerts from my laptop, like a nerd. :-)
I like this concept, but what ideas and examples are you thinking to include? The talking alerts are an interesting use case. It would be nice if you could describe briefly how espeak works, any limitations a user might hit, and 1-2 additional use cases. That should help fill out the article to a reasonable length.
Well, I'm not an expert in voice synthesizing so I can not deep into many technical details. In the other hand I can provide some examples and list some of the available options. Espeak is a text-to-speech tool, so you can let him read a text file. You can tail a log file, grep for a keyword, and pipe all to espeak: in that way you can listen to log messages of interest. Obviously it has limitations, in some cases the voice is not clear, specially in non English languages, and it looks like a talking computer in an old sci-fi movie. Said that, I think that it is a fun tool that deserves to be tried.
Ciao A.
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:05:23PM +0200, Alessio Ciregia wrote:
2017-07-17 19:55 GMT+02:00 Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 03:32:15PM +0200, Alessio Ciregia wrote:
I wrote a very short draft about a geeky command that we can find in Fedora: espeak.
Espeak is speech synthesizer, a command line tool that can speak text
from
a file or from standard input.
There is not much to say about such command: some ideas, an example. In any case I find it amusing, but at the same time useful to raise
talking
Nagios alerts from my laptop, like a nerd. :-)
I like this concept, but what ideas and examples are you thinking to include? The talking alerts are an interesting use case. It would be nice if you could describe briefly how espeak works, any limitations a user might hit, and 1-2 additional use cases. That should help fill out the article to a reasonable length.
Well, I'm not an expert in voice synthesizing so I can not deep into many technical details. In the other hand I can provide some examples and list some of the available options. Espeak is a text-to-speech tool, so you can let him read a text file. You can tail a log file, grep for a keyword, and pipe all to espeak: in that way you can listen to log messages of interest. Obviously it has limitations, in some cases the voice is not clear, specially in non English languages, and it looks like a talking computer in an old sci-fi movie. Said that, I think that it is a fun tool that deserves to be tried.
* Going over a couple important options could be a good addition. We try to avoid doing a dump of all options; rather, aim for a curated list of just a few important options a user might want, and how they're useful.
* The kind of information you're talking about here is great for the article too.
Also check out our tips page: https://fedoramagazine.org/tips-for-articles/
2017-07-20 19:50 GMT+02:00 Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:05:23PM +0200, Alessio Ciregia wrote:
2017-07-17 19:55 GMT+02:00 Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 03:32:15PM +0200, Alessio Ciregia wrote:
I wrote a very short draft about a geeky command that we can find in Fedora: espeak.
Espeak is speech synthesizer, a command line tool that can speak text
from
a file or from standard input.
You can find a draft here: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=18317&preview=true&preview_id=18317
What do you think?
Ciao A.
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