Mlxspeaker: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 22:01, 30 October 2026

The midas documentation has moved. See mlxspeaker on the Programs and options page for the new documentation about the mlxspeaker program.

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+The midas documentation has moved. See [https://midas.triumf.ca/docs/develop/reference/reference/programs/#mlxspeaker mlxspeaker] on the Programs and options page for the new documentation about the mlxspeaker program.
-= Purpose =
-{{Utility|name=mlxspeaker}} is a utility which listens to the MIDAS [[Message System]] and pipes these messages to a speech synthesizer application. {{Utility|name=mlxspeaker}} is for a Linux based system, and interfaces to the Festival speech synthesis package.
-The speech synthesis system has to be installed prior to the activation of the {{Utility|name=mlxspeaker}} utility.
-= Usage =
-    > mlxspeaker -D
-= Arguments =
-        [-help ]          : help
-        [-h hostname ]    : host name
-        [-e exptname ]    : experiment name
-        [-t mt_talk]      : Specify the mt_talk alert command
-        [-u mt_user]      : Specify the mt_user alert command
-        [-s shut up time] : Specify the min time interval between alert [s]
-                            The -t & -u switch require a command equivalent to: "-t play --volume=0.3 file.wav"
-        [-c command]      : Used to start the speech synthesizer, which should read text from its standard input.
-                            e.g.   mlxspeaker -c 'festival --tts -'
-        [-D ] : start program as a daemon
-[[Category:Utilities]]