Install festival tts in ubuntu

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:19:54 +0000

festival is a tts (text-to-speech) software in ubuntu that offers several different voices.

To install festival, run

sudo apt-get install festival

Now to use festival, in command line type

echo "Host On Net Provides Web Hosting" | festival --tts

festival --tts file-name.txt

Installing pecl uploadprogress

admin — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:19:04 +0000

Download latest software from

Install

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/uploadprogress
tar -zxvf uploadprogress-*.tgz
cd uploadprogress-*
phpize
./configure
make
make install

make install will show

# make install
Installing shared extensions:     /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/
#

There will be line with the above path in php.ini

Edit php.ini file and add

extension = "uploadprogress.so"

Below the line

extension_dir = "/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613"

Now php -m will list uploadprogressbar as a module

Now restart web server

service httpd restart

You will see following in phpinfo page