Festival

• Author: Dave Pearson <davep@davep.org>
• Version: 1.3
• License: GNU GPL 2 only
• Download: festival.jl
• Homepage: http://www.davep.org/sawfish/

Synopsis

Turns Sawfish into a speaking window manager.

Description

This script turns Sawfish into a speaking window manager when combined with the Festival Speech Synthesis System.

Installation

1. Install the Festival Speech Synthesis System.
2. Save festival.jl in your load-path.
3. Add this to your ~/.sawfishrc:

   (require 'festival)
   (festival-open)
   

Configuration

To make festival read the name of a workspace when you change to it issue:

(festival-say-workspace-on-change t)

To get Sawfish to waffle on about windows when you change focus use:

(festival-say-window-on-focus t)

You can turn the speech off at any time (probably within the first 30 seconds of use <g>) with:

(festival-close)

Note that festival-open and festival-close are interactive functions (i.e. commands) so you can bind them to a key.

The function festival-say can be used to pass any text to festival so feel free to add more speech abilities to your Sawfish environment.