Text to Speech with a Mac

[umbex 3]

Hi all, this is my first message here.

I have an old Mac Mini as a mediacenter.

I'm just configured it as a speech device to announce relevant dynamic messages.

And it works! On the Mac, configure the speech voice according to your language, on the system preferences panel.

Then you need to:

1. Enable the apache webserver on your mac (this depends on your OS).

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2. Enable php scripting

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3. create a new php file on your webserver root folder (i.e. Macintosh HD/Library/WebServer/Documents/ )

This is a sample file voice.php:

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4. Create a virtual device with the IP and port of your Mac's webserver

You can send a string:

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or use a LUA script:

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I'm now playing with this in various ways.

Hope you enjoy it.

[ Added: 2013-11-04, 21:57 ]

In addition, you can play an audio fx file with as similar approach:

on the mac the player.php file:

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on fibaro virtual device the string:

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[richo 4]

Super - You are a genius

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Have to test asap.

[ Dodano: 2013-11-04, 23:51 ]

tried on Macbookair with Maveric and doesn't work. Appache is working - tried both ways but no results ?-)

On one system I have result = "...voice.php …parsing error in line 6 …"

On the other system (iMac) no result at all

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OK get it working on iMac (Mountain Lion)

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Still a problem on Maverick - parsing error on line with shell_exec()

Also basic echo "hello" displays: @hallo@ …?

Maybe some problem with PHP and Apache on Maverick ?-)

[umbex 3]

Hi richo,

first, let's see if you can use the "say" from command line: open Terminal.app and type "say hello". If this works, you should look carefully at syntax errors in the php file.

I'm using it on snow leopard and maverick and it works fine.

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[ Added: 2013-11-06, 01:21 ]

Have you activated php on Maverick?

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Still a problem on Maverick - parsing error on line with shell_exec()

Also basic echo "hello" displays: @hallo@ …?

Maybe some problem with PHP and Apache on Maverick ?-)

[richo 4]

Hi,

PHP works as i.ex. I can see the phpinfo(), it just have a problem with parsing even standard quotes !?

Maybe I have messed something with apache server on Maverick.

Need to reinstall all files...

I also have an old ATV 1 and wonder if after jailbraking it would work the same?