From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 9 20:48: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dazed.slacker.com (dazed.slacker.com [208.15.208.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D9BF37B423 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 20:48:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 10341 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Sep 2000 03:48:00 -0000 Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 22:48:00 -0500 From: David McNett To: Doug Lee Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speech output software? Message-ID: <20000909224759.A9862@dazed.slacker.com> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Lee , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dgl@visi.com on Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:40:17PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Sep-2000, Doug Lee wrote: > Can anyone recommend a package for FreeBSD which would do text-to-speech > using either a sound card or the internal PC speaker or both? At this > point, I'm not looking for a full-fledged screen reader (though I'd like > to know of any of those which run on FreeBSD also); I just need something > which will say what I tell it to say without requiring a hardware speech > synthesizer. /usr/ports/audio/rsynth will do what you want. from DESCR: This is a text to speech system produced by integrating various pieces of code and tables of data, which are all (I believe) in the public domain. The Oxford Text Archive has for several years maintained copies of several machine-readable dictionaries along with its extensive (if unsystematic) collections of other machine-readable texts. This document gives some further details of the various dictionaries available, and summarises the conditions under which copies of them are currently distributed. The Oxford Text Archive Shortlist (available on request via electronic mail and by FTP) gives up to date brief details of all texts held in the Archive. Send electronic mail to ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK. For anonymous FTP, look in the directory ota on ota.ox.ac.uk (129.67.1.165) -- ________________________________________________________________________ |David McNett |To ensure privacy and data integrity this message has| |nugget@slacker.com|been encrypted using dual rounds of ROT-13 encryption| |Birmingham, AL USA|Please encrypt all important correspondence with PGP!| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message