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To: d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr)
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Subject: Re: Is there a speech synthesizer for FreeBSD 2.0.5? 
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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 09:28:39 -0600
From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com>
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> I'm running FreeBSD 2.0.5 and was wondering if there's a package or
> port out there that can synthesize speech and output it through the
> soundcard?  I.e. if I feed the program a file name or text on standard
> input, it will speak it.  The voice doesn't have to be English-like at
> all -- in fact, for my purposes, a computer/robot-like voice would
> really sound cool.  So, does anyone know of a program that can do
> this?  I didn't really see anything on my CDROM that looked promising.
> I have programs for Linux, but suspect that the sound drivers (even
> though they're both written by the same person) are probably vastly
> incompatible, and porting it would be a nightmare.
> 

Try rsynth from the ports dir.  I saw it work once.  I think you
may have to cook your input files somewhat to sound right on output.
I've also seen some web pages which spit out machine generated .au
files on the fly.. I wish I had the urls handy :(

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