From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 14:21:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA00521 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 14:21:43 -0800 Received: from merde.dis.org (merde.dis.org [206.14.78.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA00501 ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 14:21:35 -0800 Received: from merde.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merde.dis.org (8.6.11/8.6.11) with ESMTP id OAA01883; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 14:18:24 -0800 Message-Id: <199511012218.OAA01883@merde.dis.org> To: d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a speech synthesizer for FreeBSD 2.0.5? X-Phone: (510) 849-2230 X-Snail-address: 2560 Bancroft way #51;Berkeley CA 94704-1700 In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 01 Nov 1995 14:32:29 +0000. <199511011432.GAA26116@ix3.ix.netcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <1872.815264272.1@merde.dis.org> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 14:17:53 -0800 From: Pete Shipley 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. > >-- I wrote one a while back (back == '88) but never finished it, it used a public domain test to phoneme converter that did not work to well thus 80% of the words were from a local exceptions table (and the phoneme converter ended up as a fall through for unknown words). I am not sure if I have the code around anymore but I can look around if you want.... -Pete