Festival misreads numbers

poweruser · 09-17-2008, 03:35 PM

I frequently try to emulate features of other OSs in Linux. In this case I have made an hourly announcement of the time, a la Mac OSX, using this script and a simple cron job:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
date "+ it's%l oclock" | festival --tts

(I already edited festival's configuration file to use ALSA [which I have set to use PulseAudio])

It has one bug, however. For 12:00 it says "it's one-two o'clock", likewise for 10 and 11. Is there an argument for festival to make it pronounce numbers? is there a different argument for date that spells the output?

I'm using Ubuntu Hardy. With festival version 1.96:beta July 2004.
Thanks for the help.

David1357 · 09-17-2008, 04:26 PM

Change your script to

Quote:

Originally Posted by poweruser

Code:

#!/bin/bash
date "+ it's %l oclock" | festival --tts

You need a space before the "%l".

poweruser · 09-18-2008, 09:08 AM

Thanks! That had been bugging me for a while. It's a lot less impressive when I try to show off stuff like that if it encounters a bug 1/4th of the time =)