Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:32:29 +0900 From: Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NOW what? Message-ID: <867hqdzz9e.fsf@betla.izb.knu.ac.kr> In-Reply-To: <20100216001129.GC18559@thought.org> (Gary Kline's message of "Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:11:29 -0800") 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> <20100216001129.GC18559@thought.org>
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Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> writes: > [...] > If you look is /usr/ports/audio you will find the festival > ports.=20=20 > 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.=20 LISP is from Tao. That's why it is not easy to people.=20 > 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.=20=20 > > 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. Well i cannot produce the problem on my desktop -- FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. And for now, actually i can't launch firefox because my memory is so low (256M). Instead i use epiphany, which play well under low memory system. Then your -RELEASE version and default GUI environment(eg., KDE, GNOME)?=20=20=20=20=20 Or i'd like to say that you should take to report as bug by send-pr.=20 =20 Sincerely, --=20 =EC=86=8C=EC=97=AC=EB=AC=BC =ED=99=A9=EB=B3=91=ED=9D=AC(=E9=BB=83=E7=82=B3= =E7=86=99) | .. =EC=B6=9C=ED=95=AD 15=EB=B6=84=EC=A0=84.. "My voice is out of shape. And honestly, I'm sick of hearing myself sing." -- Johnny Fontane, "Chapter 12", page 155
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