This is the README for the irssi script speak.pl version .01

speak.pl attempts to connect irssi events to a festival text to speech server.
things that should be in place are: 

irssi:
http://irssi.org/

The Festival Speech Synthesis System:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

The Festival::Client Perl module:
http://search.cpan.org/~gossamer/Festival-Client-1.0/Client.pm

Start the festival server, start irssi, load speak.pl, enjoy.

Copyright (c) Mick McMillan 2004.
Feel free to modify and redistribute under the same terms as Perl itself.
