geting user input from php and using perl for execution

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I am using festival speech synthesis system and I would like to allow user input in a browser. This will be taken by a php page which is then supposed to pass the input text to a perl script. The perl script should pass this text to the festival engine by executing a unix command. this in turn generates an audio file to be played on the browser. How do I call perl from php and take control back to php after executing the unix command? Or is there another way of doing it?

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Why don't your php script call festival directly, rather than using a perl script as an intermediary?

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Hi all,
I decided to call festival directly from the php script as shown below but it is not generating the wav file as it is supposed to.

$text2wave_cmd = sprintf("/home/susan/Desktop/new/festival/bin/text2wave audio/hello -o audio/hello.wav");
exec($text2wave_cmd);

However, when I execute the same command in the terminal as shown below it works

susan@susan-laptop:/var/www$ /home/susan/Desktop/new/festival/bin/text2wave audio/hello -o audio/hello.wav

Please help me.