On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > Yes, festival is speech synthesis as opposed to playing canned sounds. You > can configure xastir to read out the call-signs of new stations (really > annoying in busy areas), the fact that you have incoming messages and who > they're from (sometimes useful), the contents of those messages (sometimes > useful, especially while driving), and also read out proximity alerts, as in > "Proximity Alert, KM5VY five miles from station KM5VY-9"
I had my first message read to me by Festival while I was driving, in my noisy Jeep down the freeway. I had just mentioned to another friend on a 2m repeater that I had voice running. Yet another friend decided it'd be the perfect time to send me a message. Was probably funny watching me try to drive, shift, talk on the 2m, and listen to the message all at the same time. For the most part I don't use Festival, but I like to use it sometimes when I'm driving to/from hunting or SAR missions. Keeps me entertained. > I have found that festival, while occasionally useful and initially > entertaining, is more often an annoyance that I turn off most of the time. > Your mileage, of course, may vary dramatically. The best use of it is for demo's. The "wow" factor. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
