Mlxspeaker
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Purpose
mlxspeaker is a utility which listens to the MIDAS Message System and pipes these messages to a speech synthesizer application. 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 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