Hey, Jacob! Did you look through DoubleTalk's manual? I think they discuss some of these issues there. I wish I could give more details. Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Schmude" <jacobs@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 4:14 PM Subject: Re: newer load_spk-0.8.tar.gz > Thanks for the info. I tend to still use /usr/local to indicate > which software I have installed as opposed to which software was installed > by packages. It's a personal preference. > Thanks for the direct command, I didn't know that. Now I can play > with my doubletalk more. Any way to send an exception dictionary to the > synth for example, to speak spanish? I don't speak spanish, but it's fun > to play with it. > > On 30 May 2000, Kirk Reiser wrote: > > > Hi Jacob: We changed it to /usr/bin because we tend to use debian > > which doesn't use the /usr/local tree very much. /usr/local once had > > a purpose which was to place things which you were installing on a > > machine which hosted hundreds or thousands of users, in a place to > > indicate this was local to this machine only. We don't need that tree > > really anymore because most linux boxes are totally local themselves. > > Why have extra directories you don't need to look through when > > starting a command. > > > > I will look into including the entire voice range for doubletalk if we > > don't already. I thought we did. > > > > Loadspeak has had direct synth support since about v-0.3. The command > > is direct=. Imagine that! > > > > Kirk > > > > -- > > > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Jacob Schmude > mailto:jacobs at ncinter.net > ICQ: 53401220 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
