Hi, The first url you gave, at least, works fine on my Windows machine. It is a real human speaker, and not synthesized speech. No idea under Linux though. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 2:01 PM Subject: tiflolibros audio site and downloads > I'm wondering if anybody has done anything with tiflolibros > www.tiflolibros.com.ar/ > You have to register and give proof of disability to get books (most of > them Spanish) but I'm not sure if the format of the books is a text file > of some kind that theta or festival could read or an audio file and since > they don't mention linux I don't know if there are any problems > downloading, though the downloads are apparently zip files which should > not in and of themselves be a problem. > Also, they had something up to which one could listen, using wmp. When I > tried it on mplayer on this machine I got the start of cache fill and it > looked like it was going to work; then I was told mplayer had crashed due > to poor use of cpu, but since I play all sorts of other things with > mplayer I wonder if it's this machine's setup or something else. Haven't > tried it on my laptop yet, where I just recently freshly installed mplayer > and a bunch of codecs. If somebody has time, could you check out either of > the two urls below and see whether you can play them. > Thanks. > > mms://www.jawsesp.com.ar/shua1.asf > mms://www.jawsesp.com.ar/tato1.asf > > > -- > Cheryl > > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
