From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 16 17:20:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11CA31065672 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:20:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC258FC21 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:20:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o1GHKYgG053677; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:20:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:20:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:20:34 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Byung-Hee HWANG Message-ID: <20100216172034.GA78898@thought.org> 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> <867hqdzz9e.fsf@betla.izb.knu.ac.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <867hqdzz9e.fsf@betla.izb.knu.ac.kr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ethic.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: NOW what? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:20:56 -0000 On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:32:29AM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > Gary Kline writes: > > > [...] > > 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. > > LISP is from Tao. That's why it is not easy to people. > > > 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. > > 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)? > > Or i'd like to say that you should take to report as bug by send-pr. > My environment is primarily KDE, with some Gnome apps. I'm running 7.1 right now but will soon upgrade to 7.3. It is not a bug that Konqueror is the only browser to offer the festival speech uyilities; but it would be nice if other browsers had the same option. gary > Sincerely, > > -- > ????????? ?????????(?????????) | .. ?????? 15??????.. > > "My voice is out of shape. And honestly, I'm sick of hearing myself sing." > -- Johnny Fontane, "Chapter 12", page 155 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- 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