Steady as a rock

…or so they say

 

Festival is evil

Evil in 3 easy steps:

  • apt-get install festival festvox-kallpc16k
  • Write a small xchat script in python (link)
  • Wait for surprised looks on the faces of people around you when people say your name on IRC

Fun!

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By Dennis Kaarsemaker
On September 13, 2007
At 13:42
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10 Comments for this post

 
LjL Says:

Why, does anyone actually understand it’s your name?
I thought Festival was a vocal cryptography system.
Much better to make line 19
proc = subprocess.Popen([’cw’], stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
and get something understandable (apt-get install cw).

 
 
hype Says:

Hehe, quite fun.
Too bad it doesnt support french yet.
Tho french pronounced with english accent is quite fun. :D

 
 
Vincent Says:

Awesome, though as I have problems understanding simple English, understanding Dutch is impossible :P

 
 
steve Says:

Sorry, what does this do?

 
 
Skiessi Says:

What evil has to do with this? o_O Anyway, you should be able to choose the Festival language for each channel. That needs some extra scripting?

 
 
LjL Says:

Why “each channel”? Can’t there be more than one language spoken in a single channel?
Much better to use something such as ‘mguesser’ or ‘createfp’ I’d say.

 
 
Ozgur Karatas Says:

for the irc beautifull development..

 
 
Vincent Says:

Sorry, what does this do?

Steve, when you have this script activated, when someone says something with your name in it on IRC that sentence is spoken out loud.

 
 
mysurface Says:

How about using espeak?

espeak support multi-lingual including french with various male and female voice.

 

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