From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 3 9:18:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 899C514C42 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 09:17:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11BhFR-0003ij-00; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:17:06 -0600 Message-ID: <37A71600.F38E822E@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 10:17:05 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD voice synthesis References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer wrote: > > Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival > > it has support for FreeBSD already (seems to work fine) > > 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) Try Free B S D. Tricks like that used to work well with the simple ones available for "home" computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use SAM "the Software Automated Mouth" for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message