[Idea] espeak Messages?
 

Why did not one think to use espeak to read your new message with a long press of the camera button? Good idea bad idea?

Re: [Idea] espeak Messages?
 

Good idea but we need a sexy women speaking to us.

Re: [Idea] espeak Messages?
 

I'm fairly certain none of the Free/Open Source TTS systems will meet that specification. The most bearable female TTS voice I've seen that wasn't from a proprietary system was slt_arctic_hts, from Festival.

To the OP: Are you referring to new SMS/IM messages?

Re: [Idea] espeak Messages?
 

SMS/IM and possibly even email. It's not a bad idea.

I tried out espeak Time but I naturally press the button twice to unlock (habit) thus every time I was unlocking my phone it would spout off the time.

Re: [Idea] espeak Messages?
 

Thank you! I didnt know how to get espeaktime to say the time, its not written anywhere (I could find!)

Re: [Idea] espeak Messages?
 

Hi,
anything new on this topic?
I discovered espeak while using gtranslate.
is it possible to run espeakt from the terminal?

I would like to let read my new messages to me

dabozz

Re: [Idea] espeak Messages?
 

Here is a quick script to speak the time

Re: [Idea] espeak Messages?
 

You would need something that could read the database file in which phone records and IM/sms are kept. I know you can see them in glogarchive but I don't know how to get espeak to read a line in the database using the command line.

Re: [Idea] espeak Messages?
 

I wrote simple script in perl to speak sms IM messages and time
(like espeaktime).
You could try this (attached file).
czech muttation is here :) http://mymaemo.cz/forum/index.php/topic,1234.0.html

Download it and run in term.
perl espeakxen.pl.txt

Dependencies
espeak
zenity

by root run
apt-get install espeak
apt-get install zenity

break is CTRL+c

Why not do it without Perl?
 

Without invalidating the Perl script above which reads the message, wouldn't it be simpler just to type in the command for reading the message? Just open the X Terminal window and type

sqlite3 -csv $( ls $HOME/.rtcom-eventlogger/el*db -1t | head -n1 ) "SELECT free_text FROM Events WHERE service_id='3' ORDER BY start_time DESC;" | head -n1 | espeak

You do have to make sure espeak is installed. You can do it from the usual App Manager or, if you know how to gain root, run as root: "apt-get install espeak". (You don't need espeakmsg or espeaktime or whatever.)

Of course, typing that 166-character line above is not that convenient, so you can stick it in a two-line shell script file that says:

#!/bin/sh
sqlite3 -csv $( ls $HOME/.rtcom-eventlogger/el*db -1t | head -n1 ) "SELECT free_text FROM Events WHERE service_id='3' ORDER BY start_time DESC;" | head -n1 | espeak


If you name the file "ss", for example, then you just type "ss"[Enter] which is 3 characters.

You can also stick it in a widget on your N900 "desk"top, so you can just tap the icon to read the most recent sms message.