Hi Chuck, Yeah, that Flite say_time command is cool. I like that brit accent with the terms like "half past" and "quarter to" and such. It gives it that sort of human element instead of just hearing numbers or dry dates. Cheryl, For playing MP3's or at least playing simple files like mpg123 used to do, mpg321 is an alternative or at least Slackware offers it. I just looked at my system though and the Slackware package is dated back in 2003; wonder if Slackware still has it or if it is something left over from prior versions of Slack.:) In any case, I can think of several ways to play mp3's with programs other than mpg123. Even Lame could be told to play mp3 files by decoding the output to aplay for ALSA users. On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:43:16PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://holmesgrown.ld.net/
