From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 3 6:14:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (paprika.michvhf.com [209.57.60.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15EA2152AA for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 06:14:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vev@michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 13212 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Aug 1999 13:13:09 -0000 Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 09:13:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Vince Vielhaber To: Julian Elischer Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD voice synthesis In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and > understand it a bit better. They seem to have support for up to 4.0 in > some of the files, so maybe they actually have a freebsd user in their > group. > > It's big and(on my p90) a bit slow, but I hope that I'll be able > to get just the bits I need to make it a bit faster. > > 'festival' itself seems to totoally skip the word "FreeBSD" > when I asked it to say (from the manual) I'm using a pIII-450 and it pronounces it "freebs". However if you spell it "Free B S D" it does just fine. Seems to do well with most words I've thrown at it - including some last names (it does mine almost perfect, but blows some real easy ones). > > [you need..] > > A Unix machine, Festival has compiled and run on Suns (SunOS and Solaris), > FreeBSD, Linux, SGIs, HPs and DEC Alphas but should be portable to any > standard Unix machine. Did gmake test work for you in festival? It did for me in speech-tools but not festival even tho it seems to work well. Sure is gonna make some of these boring README files easier! ...wonder how hard it'd be to tie it into the select buffer in X... Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include TEAM-OS2 Online Campground Directory http://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstore http://www.cloudninegifts.com ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message