Voice dialout

"Robert J. Brown" (rj@eli.elilabs.com)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:52:11 -0500


>>>>> "Gert" == Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> writes:

    Gert> Hi, On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 07:44:35PM -0500, Ing. Ramon
    Gert> Solano Barajas wrote:
    >> I'm building an application that involve the monitoring of some
    >> real time variables and additionally gather a warning e-mail
    >> message when some circumstances occur, but now I'm trying to
    >> implement a voice warning to some telephone numbers. The
    >> message may be a pre-recorded one, but if some kind of
    >> text-to-speech conversion could be made, it will be great. I've
    >> installed (and all is working fine) the great suite of programs
    >> mgetty with fax and voice extensions on a Linux box (Red Hat
    >> 6.0) with a 3Com U.S. Robotics 56K Voice Faxmodem.
    >> 
    >> Any help will be greately appreciated.

    Gert> So where is the question, exactly?

I think the [implicit] question is how to do the voice to text part,
which your reply below does not directly address.  Check out rsynth as 
one possibility for this:

   http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech/Section5/Synth/rsynth.html

    Gert> Get mgetty 1.1.20, install it, install vgetty (in the voice/
    Gert> subdirectory), play with it, find voice/scripts/message.sh,
    Gert> use that.

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