SPACE-NERDS-IN-SPACE(6)

🚀 SPACE-NERDS-IN-SPACE(6) 🚀

ok so you found the snis_text_to_speech.sh page inside the Space Nerds In Space section of the games manual and honestly? it's a little guy doing a big job 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

snis_text_to_speech.sh — the wrapper script that Space Nerds In Space uses to turn text into speech, no cap 🗣️

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

snis_text_to_speech.sh 'Text you want it to speak'

literally just hand it a string in quotes and it speaks it, bestie 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so snis_text_to_speech.sh is a wrapper script — like a little manager — that wraps around pico2wave, espeak, and aplay ✨ And Space Nerds In Space uses it to convert text into audible computer-generated speech.

The way it works: first it tries pico2wave(1) and aplay(1). iconic duo 💅 But if that doesn't work (typically because pico2wave or aplay aren't installed 😭) then it falls back to trying espeak(1) instead. resilient queen 👑

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🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

  ./snis_text_to_speech.sh 'Ramming speed!'

the drama. the energy. the ramming speed 🔥

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• /tmp/tts-*.wav — temporary audio files produced by pico2wave, which then get played via aplay(1) and then deleted 🗑️✨
• /tmp/snisttslockdir — a directory that gets created and deleted as a synchronization mechanism, so that parallel invocations of snis_text_to_speech.sh don't, like, speak over one another 🙈 it's giving traffic control for vibes

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

espeak(1), pico2wave(1), aplay(1)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

snis_text_to_speech.sh was written by Stephen M. Cameron — absolute legend, we stan 🌈⭐

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ngl that's the whole page, no cap 💀 everything you need is right here.

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ok bestie that's the tea ☕ this is version snis_text_to_speech.sh from Jan 2017, hand-delivered with love from the SPACE-NERDS-IN-SPACE(6) games manual page 🎀 go make your computer talk fr fr 💖🦋🌸