Francesco's Final Project

Readme to Francesco's text-to-speech synthesizer
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System Spec
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texttospeech is a sh script so I think only macs and
other *NIX os's can handle it.
It's only been tested on a mac 

Install instructions
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In a terminal open the directory containing the synth files.
All you need is:

g++ phoneticizer.cpp

which should create a file called a.out if it doesn't already exist


Usage instructions
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As is, the chuck file speechsynth.ck does nothing!
It contains the framework, but you have to hardcode the sounds that
you want to create.
Do not fear, I've made a couple of scripts that automate the process

In a terminal in the directory containing the synth files type:
./texttospeech

It will give you a prompt to enter text. Type what you want, then hit
enter and watch the magic happen! (note, it can't handle punctuation.
If it encounters a word it can't pronounce, it will skip it.)

I've also made a script called ./speak which replays some custom code
that has been tweaked to have different inflection or sing.

usage:
./speak file_name

Finally, ./a.out will work as the underlying converter from english to
the code that ./speak takes as input.

to use:
./a.out > output_file
(it wont prompt you, just type the phrase)