using this script:
week=$(date +”%A” )
day=$(date +”%e” )
echo hello $USER you are super awesome i am your processor | festival –tts
echo today is $week $day | festival –tts
echo have a nice day | festival –tts
But it is not working thank you for any help.
More simple that you can imagine.
From man festival
-- tts Synthesize text in files as speech no files means read from stdin (implies no interaction by default)
So --tts and not -tts
Some option is Linux are with 2 -, usually are the less used with long names, some alias to help human to remember a short option (e.g. gzip --best acts as gzip -9 to select the best compression level).
You have to modify each call to festival putting --tts instead of -tts e.g.:
echo have a nice day | festival --tts
Version:
festival: Festival Speech Synthesis System: 2.1:release November 2010.
Notes:
for some reasons in your post there is the symbol – and not the standard minus -. You have to use the minus to specify the option.
Older version of Festival (<=1.4) didn't seems to support the redirection from echo Bug688940.
If you have an old version you can follow the syntax of the relative version, you can check if is ok this link, or you can update your version with apt-get.
apt-get update && upt-get install festival
Excerpt from the Bug
This is an error due to incorrect syntax for festival. Festival does not use the echo and redirects to speak. Correct syntax is documented in the manual, available at http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/
week=$(date +”%A” ) day=$(date +”%e” ) && echo hello $USER you are super awesome i am your processor | festival –tts && echo today is $week $day | festival –tts && echo have a nice day | festival –ttsttsoption needs a double hyphen i.e.echo have a nice day | festival --tts. Regardless it would be helpful if you mentioned how it fails - including any error messages.