Hi,
Has anybody seen a non commercial, or freeware, or GPL, or even
CHEAP... POP/IMAP to Text-to-speech?
I have a working version for POP3 using festival. It DOES
work... it even cleans the email contents to get the actual content. It
works great with Outlook emails and similar, and skips non
multipart/alternative (that would be mainly SPAM, where the email is just
html or multipart without the text/plain alternative).
BUT, festival does really sound BAD when reading...
AND... IMAP would be preferable, because you can mark emails as
read, instead I have to go over all the emails I have. So if I can get past
this without further coding... would be great.
I tested with Cepstral.. it seems quite good... perhaps somebody
has another option, preferable as cheap as cepstral...
In, short... any experiences with this?
Cheers!
Alchaemist
> Hi, > > Has anybody seen a non commercial, or freeware, or GPL, or even > CHEAP... POP/IMAP to Text-to-speech? > > I have a working version for POP3 using festival. It DOES > work... it even cleans the email contents to get the actual content. It > works great with Outlook emails and similar, and skips non > multipart/alternative (that would be mainly SPAM, where the email is just > html or multipart without the text/plain alternative). > > BUT, festival does really sound BAD when reading... > > AND... IMAP would be preferable, because you can mark emails as > read, instead I have to go over all the emails I have. So if I can get past > this without further coding... would be great. > > I tested with Cepstral.. it seems quite good... perhaps somebody > has another option, preferable as cheap as cepstral... > > In, short... any experiences with this? > > Cheers! > Alchaemist > >I would be also very interested in POP3/IMAP impementation with TTS through Asterisk. Did somebody try to do it? Bart ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
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On 17:34, Wed 21 Sep 05, Alchaemist wrote:> Hi, > > Has anybody seen a non commercial, or freeware, or GPL, or even > CHEAP... POP/IMAP to Text-to-speech? > > I have a working version for POP3 using festival. It DOES > work... it even cleans the email contents to get the actual content. It > works great with Outlook emails and similar, and skips non > multipart/alternative (that would be mainly SPAM, where the email is just > html or multipart without the text/plain alternative). > > BUT, festival does really sound BAD when reading... > > AND... IMAP would be preferable, because you can mark emails as > read, instead I have to go over all the emails I have. So if I can get past > this without further coding... would be great. > > I tested with Cepstral.. it seems quite good... perhaps somebody > has another option, preferable as cheap as cepstral... > > In, short... any experiences with this?Hi, Care to share the code you already have for POP3 using festival ? If so I can help to port it to IMAP (I'm using IMAP here for mail). Greetz -- Michiel van Baak http://michiel.vanbaak.info michiel@vanbaak.info GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7E0B9A2D "Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
In short: use the right tool for the joob. See below. On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 05:34:23PM -0300, Alchaemist wrote:> Hi, > > Has anybody seen a non commercial, or freeware, or GPL, or even > CHEAP... POP/IMAP to Text-to-speech?Pull pop3/imap/imaps/whatever with fetchmail (or getmail, or whatever). deliver it to a script using procmail. Now you are left with the problem of TTS from a local mail message. What is the expected format of the message? BTW: you can plug just about anything else instead of POP3: e.g: use gotmail to fetch messages from hotmail.> > I have a working version for POP3 using festival. It DOES > work... it even cleans the email contents to get the actual content. It > works great with Outlook emails and similar, and skips non > multipart/alternative (that would be mainly SPAM, where the email is just > html or multipart without the text/plain alternative).Pass them first through spamassasin or whatever. You can easily integrate spam filtering in procmail. Or in the MTA. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzafrir@jbr.cohens.org.il | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzafrir@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend