From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 2 15:48:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 116741065679 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:48:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A58F78FC1F for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:48:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n92Fl2P9006860; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 08:47:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 08:48:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 08:48:38 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: DA Forsyth Message-ID: <20091002154838.GA9446@thought.org> References: <20091002071528.0B3B710656F0@hub.freebsd.org> <4AC5ED1E.3820.4B0A319@d.forsyth.ru.ac.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AC5ED1E.3820.4B0A319@d.forsyth.ru.ac.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NO ONE knows?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:48:46 -0000 On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:07:58PM +0200, DA Forsyth wrote: > On 2 Oct 2009 , freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org entreated about > "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 278, Issue 10": > > > Message: 28 > > Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:22:45 -0700 > > From: Gary Kline > > Subject: NO ONE knows?? > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > > Message-ID: <20091001192241.GA5597@thought.org> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > > > so ==nobody== know how to get espeak working with the high-quality > > voices? hard to believe on this list... > > I use espeak, but have never tried to use any other than the stock > voice, it works just fine. I suspect most other folks have the same > experience. > > I use espeak to verbalize warnings and errors from XYMON on the main > server which sits next to me, since I'm not always looking at email. > What I'm looking for is how to use the ``better than the default voices''; there are several english languages that are fairly natural sounding. Nothing I've googled explain using the quality voices for FreeBSD. gary > > gary > > > -- > DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor > Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research > http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php