Hello,
I am trying to write a perl program that will help my child with their spelling. As I will make it work through the web browser I am looking for a way to convert the text input into some sort of sound file. This will get played when they click on a button.
From my original research I was going to use epeak (there is a cpan module for it), but it doesn't want to install on my system. Many others that I have found are for window based machines using MicrosoftSam voice, this is no good for me as I use a Sun box (OS solaris).
Any suggestions or help would be gratefully received, I am beginning to think I might not be able to do it.
Thank you all.
--UPDATE FROM HERE --
Tried to install festival, and failed. It doesn't like my OS (solaris10). I would like to persevere with the espeak. I know the next bit is a bit off-subject for perlmonks but could anyone help me with these error messages.
g++ -shared -Wl,h,libespeak.so.1 -o libespeak.so x_speak_lib.o x_compi
+ledict.o x_dictionary.o x_intonation.o x_readclause.o x_setlengths.o 
+x_numbers.o x_synth_mbrola.o x_synthdata.o x_synthesize.o x_translate
+.o x_tr_english.o x_tr_languages.o x_voices.o x_wavegen.o x_phonemeli
+st.o x_espeak_command.o x_event.o x_fifo.o x_wave.o x_debug.o -lstdc+
++  -lpthread
ld: fatal: file h: open failed: No such file or directory
ld: fatal: file libespeak.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to libespeak.so
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [libespeak.so] Error 1

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My OS is sunOS, and I am using gcc3.4.6.
Thanks

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