Re: speech synthesis on-the-fly
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:56:48 +0000
Hereward Cooper <zadok@phreaker.net> wrote:
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> Hi,
> I'm re-wiring a network and am trying to recreate a system which I read
> in "the story of ping"[1]. Basically you use a speech synthesiser to
> call out PING as loud as possible for every successful ping of another
> machine on the network. This means you can go round the building playing
> with the cabling looks for errors, and know as soon as you find one :)
>
> What I'm basing the system on is:
>
> ping attic | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | festival --tts
>
> The problem is that it won't work 'on-the-fly' i.e. as the ping command
> is running, not once the ping command has finished. I managed to get sed
> working on-the-fly by using ssed (super-sed). But I can't get festival
> working on-the-fly, calling out PING as they happen :(
>
> Has anyone got something like this working?
There are ping modules for perl and python. Maybe you'll have
to write a little script to make things play nice.
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