saolsen/fest

Web service wrapper for the festival text processing system

Fest

Fest is a web service wrapper for the festival text processing system

Running

• First you have to get festival installed and set up the way you like (voices etc).
• Make sure you have your AWS credentials set in environment variables.
• Start Festival in server mode. $ festival --server
• Start up fest, you can do this two ways. You can run it with the webserver built into the flask library by invoking it on the command line $ python fest.py
• Otherwise you can run it with some other web server. How you do this will vary. (I currently run it with gunicorn)

Using

If you hit the webserver you'll get a simple (terrible looking) form that contains a name and text field. This is just for testing purposes. The form posts to the same endpoint which is how anything consuming this web service would use it. To use the service send a POST to the root endpoint of the server containing {'name': 'the_name_of_the_file', 'text': 'Some Text you want to convert to audio'} The text will be translated to audio, stored in an s3 bucket and then a direct url to the file will be returned.