[Asterisk-Users] POP3 and TTS (Festival?)

[Michiel van Baak]

On 17:34, Wed 21 Sep 05, Alchaemist wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>             Has anybody seen a non commercial, or freeware, or GPL, or even 
> CHEAP... POP/IMAP to Text-to-speech?
> 
>             I have a working version for POP3 using festival. It DOES 
> work... it even cleans the email contents to get the actual content. It 
> works great with Outlook emails and similar, and skips non 
> multipart/alternative (that would be mainly SPAM, where the email is just 
> html or multipart without the text/plain alternative).
> 
>             BUT, festival does really sound BAD when reading...
> 
>             AND... IMAP would be preferable, because you can mark emails as 
> read, instead I have to go over all the emails I have. So if I can get past 
> this without further coding... would be great.
> 
>             I tested with Cepstral.. it seems quite good... perhaps somebody 
> has another option, preferable as cheap as cepstral...
> 
>             In, short... any experiences with this?

Hi,

Care to share the code you already have for POP3 using
festival ? If so I can help to port it to IMAP (I'm using
IMAP here for mail).

Greetz

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