Time for TTS on Linux

It is unfair that zk can speak on Windows, but cannot do it on Linux!
Here is a simple widget which uses festival.

How to make it works:

1) Install festival
For Ubuntu/Debian:

quote: sudo apt-get install festival

2) Start it:

quote: festival --server

You can use another port, but you should change the port const in the widget

3) In .springrc (Probably, ~/.springrc) add

quote: LuaSocketEnabled = 1 TCPAllowConnect = 127.0.0.1:1314

4) PROFIT!!!

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Just join it without 1314:

festival --server

festival has an option to use pipe, so it read data from stdin. It can be better to use a special script instead of sockets, is it?

quote: Just join it without 1314: festival --server

Sorry. Fixed.

It should read only messages from ally and labels. Are they any errors in infolog?

Although I appreciate your effort on this, I have to say that TTS is really annoying, I'm glad it doesn't work by default on linux xD

It does not seem to work. I had it set up properly and was playing, not just speccing but it did not read out ally chat.

Got this to work. Instructions for Linux Debian/Ubuntu with ZKL:
Click download in the pastebin behind banana_Ai's link.
Save the file to your .spring/LuaUI/Widgets folder with the name
festival_tts.lua (or whatever name ending in .lua).

Do in a terminal:

quote: sudo apt-get install festival

This one will run festival, the text to speech server, and will take over your terminal. Closing the terminal closes the text to speech service:

quote: festival --server

In ZK Lobby, go to Settings. Click Adv. Settings - edit engine settings.
Paste

quote: LuaSocketEnabled = 1 TCPAllowConnect = 127.0.0.1:1314

at the end of the file.
Start a new game. It should speak "I choose: whatevercom" when you start.
Also active when spectating by default.
Just kill or don't run festival to disable.

it works now. The text has to go in springsettings.txt and not .springrc. The problem is that I cant understand a word of what it says. Thanks for the info Vermind.

TheSponge if you can't understand it, probably your system has a different default language than English for festival installed.
Try to install the Americal English speaker and run festival with the English language instead:

sudo apt-get install festvox-kdlpc16k
festival --language english --server

By the way, how do you do code formatting or at least quote in this forum?

TheSponge that sounds like the minimal English speaker or some other low quality voice. Try to uninstall other voices than the 16k ones.