Cheryl, I use a program which came once as part of the flite package, called flite_time. It actually sounds pretty good in spite of its family of origin. The voice is drawn from a library of fixed utterances for better quality. Let me know if you would like a copy. I drive mine from a crontab to tell me the time every 15 minutes. Chuck On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:44:05PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Gene sent me the program and it sounds good but isn't really the one i > was looking for. The one i had used mp3 files and needed mpg123. By > typing saytime-1.0.tar.gz in google I found an article on the cli that > has people download that file--unfortunately the link now comes up dry. > I suspect that it may have been removed due to the use of mpg123, just > as I noticed in my reinstall of debian that mp3 encoding support now > has to be done from source. anyway, I'm really mad at myself; with all > the stuff I backed up, I don't know why that got left out. Just glad to > at least have the program with .au files from Gene. > > -- > Email services by FreedomBox. Surf the Net at the sound of your voice. > www.freedombox.info > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (97% of Full) But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
