Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:01:06 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> Cc: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress'' Message-ID: <20090425230106.GB95508@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <d356c5630904250547p6e3090a6n21564bd253c8a6c0@mail.gmail.com> 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> <d356c5630904250547p6e3090a6n21564bd253c8a6c0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 07:47:04AM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> 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. The one thing my friend said was: "The first time I read this stuff it sounds fine and makes sense. Then I stop and re-read and I get lost." I'm glad I took Chuck Robey's advice and used a poetic notation rather than just plain prose. With poetry, you can use imagery and symbology, etc. You can get across more in poetry than prose, but it's a bear to learn to do well. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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