Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:11:29 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NOW what? Message-ID: <20100216001129.GC18559@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <86zl3b4fay.fsf@betla.izb.knu.ac.kr> References: <20100212181035.GA3948@thought.org> <20100212182031.GA4021@thought.org> <86y6iyi6r5.fsf@betla.izb.knu.ac.kr> <20100213091815.GA6452@thought.org> <86zl3b4fay.fsf@betla.izb.knu.ac.kr>
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On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:34:45AM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> writes: > > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 04:38:54AM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > >> Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> writes: > >> > >> > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:10:38AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > >> > [... long line snip ...] > >> > I just tried again and now Konq did send me to the hyperlink... > >> > Was i hallucinating? dunno.... > >> > >> Hi Gary, how about GNOME's epiphany? Recently i settled down at > >> epiphany for web work. That looks good to me. > >> > > > > > > I like epiphany more and more; the thing it lacks, and the Only > > reason I use Konq is that it lets me use the festival > > text-to-speech apps. > > > > If *anybody* knows of any other browser that can be set to have > > festival stuff work, please, Pulsseeze let me know:) > > Gary, what is festival text-to-speech apps? Can you please tell me what > that is? in detail... If i have good idea, i can give you some > information -- maybe there is some apps you want for in GNOME > packages. If you look is /usr/ports/audio you will find the festival ports. 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jan 25 20:13 festival 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 27 03:07 festival-freebsoft-utils 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 8 2009 festlex-cmu are some of them. When you use the Konqueror browser and have festival correctly installed, you can mouse-swipe a bunch of text and click on the Tools drop-down and have the text read aloud to you. It is fairly difficult to get a computer produce human speech. I found out just some of the problems recently when I began looking at some of the code. Much of festival is written in C++; that I understand somewhat. Other parts are written in some kind of LISP; I do not understand LISP very well. Anyway, the point here is that when I find a long, long essay on some philosopher and have to read it, having is spoken to me is *MUCH* easier than making my eyes struggle thru the essay. So far, there are plug-ins to firefox-3 that attempt to read text to you, but nothing I can get to work. Gnome probably does have speech apps by now, but they probably rely on festival as a back-end. > > Ah and I'm not sure my word is correct english. My friend, your English is just fine. I am, sadly, still mono-lingual. I am still trying to learn *French* that I took in high school. (*sigh*) > If i speak wrong > english, you have to communicate mind to mind without appeared > word. Ha! Yes, that would be nice, even if it required something you had to wear on your head, :-) Well, maybe in a few hundred years. > Plus Gary you study Korean. Korean is easy to study ^^; > Sure it's easy; so is climbing a sheer cliff face! I think anybody who can understand English as well as their native language[s], is absolutely outstanding. Congrats. later on, gary > Sincerely, > > -- > ????????? (Hwang, Byung-Hee), KOREA > > "Get in the car. If I wanted to kill you you'd be dead now. Trust me." > -- Virgil Sollozzo, "Chapter 2", page 77 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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