Submitted by stedevil
We had some funny texts that where never displayed but also quite pointless when a bot was hit. It would however probably be quite a nice/funny addition to have when a bot is hit by a spell/program of Tux.

"Unhandled exception fault.  Press ok to reboot."
"System fault. Please buy a newer version."
"System error. Might be a virus."
"System error. Please buy an upgrade from MS."
"System error. Press any key to reboot."
"Aargh, I got hit.  Ugh, I got a bad feeling..."

Posted by salimiles
Where would the text go?

I was thinking we should consider adding these as voice samples. Possibly by using the "eposd" and "say-epos"?

You have to play with the spellings a bit in order to get the sounds correct. E.g.:

> eposd
> say-epos "Un-handled exseptshion fault. Press okey to rebuut."
sounds like "Unhandled exception fault. Press ok to reboot."

Posted by salimiles
> say-epos "Un-handled exseptshon fault. Press okey to rebut."
actually sounds better.

Posted by salimiles
> say-epos "System fault. Plee-z bo-i a new verjon."
"System fault. Please buy a new version."

> say-epos "System error. Plee-z bo-i an up-gr-aid."
"System error. Please buy an upgrade."

>say-epos "System error. Press any k-yy tu rebut."
"System error. Press any key to reboot."

and so on.

Posted by salimiles
Sorry, scratch all of that.

Apparently the "espeak" command (Ubuntu 10.04) actually works much better, and sounds much closer to the existing bot samples.

I blame http://xkcd.com/530/ for having me fixated on the "say" command.

Posted by stedevil
Hmm, I was mainly thinking of text popping up, but espeak sounds like a good idea as well. :)

You feel like looking into saving those speeches as soundfiles and document the process properly? It could be quite useful. :) 

Posted by salimiles
I wrote the following process up for how to use eSpeak:

https://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freedroid/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=106