wrapping processes in IO.popen and festivaltts4r
Posted by Mike
There is a cool gem called Festival TTS for Ruby . What it does is take text, pass it into the The Festival Speech Synthesis System , then transform the WAV from Festival into an MP3. festivaltts4r provides a programming interface to use its functionality in an application. The project includes a Flash media player so that you can use festivaltts4r easily in a Rails application. Listen to their example Rails application. To use the Flash player you need to check out the project as a plugin to your Rails app like so:
