Bash: How I send clipboard to festival or what is wrong here?

NothingToLose · 01-24-2010, 06:59 AM

How I send clipboard to festival or what is wrong here?

#!/bin/bash

text='xclip -selection clipboard -o'
echo '(voice_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts) (SayText "$text")' | festival

Says only "dollar text" to me.

Just this works, but I want other script with different voice:
#!/bin/bash

xclip -selection clipboard -o | festival --tts

Voice changed here:
echo '(voice_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts) (SayText "say this please")' | festival

catkin · 01-24-2010, 07:04 AM

Try

Code:

text=`xclip -selection clipboard -o`

Those are back quotes instead of straight quotes.

Actually it's better to use

Code:

text=$(xclip -selection clipboard -o)

for reasons explained here, including the one you know about -- that back quotes are easily mistaken for straight quotes!

NothingToLose · 01-24-2010, 07:24 AM

Thanks! I also found that I have to use:

echo "(voice_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts) (SayText \"$text\")" | festival

Double quotes and \ for escape.

catkin · 01-24-2010, 07:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NothingToLose

Thanks! I also found that I have to use:

echo "(voice_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts) (SayText \"$text\")" | festival

Double quotes and \ for escape.

That makes some sense because the value of $text would not be substituted if it appears between single quotes. Presumably festival needs to see the double quotes either side of the value of $text when it reads from stdin.