From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 10 22:45:48 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA17865 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 May 1995 22:45:48 -0700 Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA17859 ; Wed, 10 May 1995 22:45:41 -0700 Received: from cc.uq.oz.au by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au id <01035-0@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>; Thu, 11 May 1995 15:31:49 +1000 Received: from netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au by pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.10/DEVETIR-E0.3a) with ESMTP id PAA29366; Thu, 11 May 1995 15:35:31 +1000 Received: from localhost by netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.8.1/DEVETIR-0.1) id FAA25431; Thu, 11 May 1995 05:34:44 GMT Message-Id: <199505110534.FAA25431@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6 4/21/95 To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com Subject: Re: No speech toys for audio?? :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 May 1995 20:59:24 MST." <199505110359.UAA00245@star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 15:34:40 +1000 From: Stephen Hocking Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk There's also the rsynth package - it configures fine for FreeBSD using NAS or /dev/audio. It also has pointer to various text->phoneme dictionaries - works well. It's a lot better in its quality of output than speak. It's over in the UK somewhere.. svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk, some directory in the speech archives. The latest version is 2.0. See Nick Ing-Simmons, Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com. > > It just occurred to me - we've no way of even having the sound blaster > > speak to you! Back in 1.x, I brought in a speaking "big ben" clock > > that actually worked pretty well, but it seems to have been lost in > > the sands of time.. Anyone got a pointer to it, or better yet, a > > fully functional text-to-speach converter that works with /dev/audio? > > > > Thanks! > > Jordan > I do not speak for the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland - They don't pay me enough for that!