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From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
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Subject: Re: Is there a speech synthesizer for FreeBSD 2.0.5?
To: d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 10:03:42 -0600 (CST)
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199511011432.GAA26116@ix3.ix.netcom.com> from "Donald Burr" at Nov 1, 95 02:32:29 pm
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Look at rsynth in the ports/packages.

Boyd
> 
> 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
>

rsynth sounds like a computer all right.




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