From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 25 12:47:06 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 CE6641065679 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:47:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrewlylegould@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f162.google.com (mail-fx0-f162.google.com [209.85.220.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 310F58FC1A for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:47:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrewlylegould@gmail.com) Received: by fxm6 with SMTP id 6so1141523fxm.43 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:47:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=AFxFAaAfCa3xVQ5yyQF4GutKGLmbOF8/lrFR1znLiwI=; b=UITX5oo6Ra5KoVNDErNhI0V3hkf6xhTPaD+hh1Zmxp5eBMzZA5ZxI6fx6u30t+NIPj yMxdjHDh8HpunNWFgeSyHoy/4z149eW3g9aynyEgQIn/jLrFG0gAcOA3q1ooJWXfqy6H +/INPaJPTeGle9sefIKx6E2CzzeF38TSaLhkg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Oot79U3RpG1cKKY46fUV9mp59s2Xj726RjMdx7ZC9RTaOcUMIqjFy/dkPn6jSKO7EI zTYoBjlxBqn+Saxu8obSmXPR5X9TahXlYPHLKKFgR+D8B8Sd57Q7+SzmbYOQHjXJqZ97 wng6T/dKh+h2nk86XeXzfTLmtoFIjLXy3wg/A= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.104.140 with SMTP id p12mr1110019fao.7.1240663625033; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:47:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090425110859.f52460eb.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20090422072312.GA92118@thought.org> <20090424104852.a092d816.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090424201644.GA69617@thought.org> <200904240438.07178.lists@jnielsen.net> <20090424231843.GA91766@thought.org> <20090425110859.f52460eb.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:47:04 -0500 Message-ID: From: Andrew Gould To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Gary Kline , John Nielsen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress'' 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: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:47:07 -0000 On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > yes, the voices [from audio/festival] are pretty good; i use > > them to read boring stuff > > to me when i'm about brain-dead! but these voices just don't cut > > it given the kind of quasi-poetic stuff i have. > > Wouldn't it be easier to use a natural speaker then? I know there's > no such person in the ports collection... :-) > > This is a very good point. (Especially since Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, voice of the computer in the original tv series of "Star Trek," is no longer with us.) Writings of such a human nature deserve a real human's voice and interpretation.