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!

9 Comments

  1. 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).

  2. hype Says:

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

  3. Vincent Says:

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

  4. steve Says:

    Sorry, what does this do?

  5. 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?

  6. 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.

  7. for the irc beautifull development..

  8. 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.

  9. mysurface Says:

    How about using espeak?

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

Leave a Comment