From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 06:33:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA16947 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 06:33:01 -0800 Received: from ix3.ix.netcom.com (ix3.ix.netcom.com [199.182.120.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA16930 ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 06:32:55 -0800 Received: from ppp.silcom.com by ix3.ix.netcom.com (8.6.12/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id GAA26116; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 06:32:18 -0800 Message-Id: <199511011432.GAA26116@ix3.ix.netcom.com> From: d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Is there a speech synthesizer for FreeBSD 2.0.5? Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 14:32:29 GMT Organization: Netcom X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99b.113 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm running FreeBSD 2.0.5 and was wondering if there's a package or port out there that can synthesize speech and output it through the soundcard? I.e. if I feed the program a file name or text on standard input, it will speak it. The voice doesn't have to be English-like at all -- in fact, for my purposes, a computer/robot-like voice would really sound cool. So, does anyone know of a program that can do this? I didn't really see anything on my CDROM that looked promising. I have programs for Linux, but suspect that the sound drivers (even though they're both written by the same person) are probably vastly incompatible, and porting it would be a nightmare. -- Donald Burr ** U.S. Mail: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 Tel: (805) 564-1871 ** FAX: (805) 564-2315 ** Email: d_burr@ix.netcom.com WWW: http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~dburr ** PGP Public Key available -- email me, or use public key servers ** Protect your right to privacy: Use PGP.