I just wanted to pass along the news of an interesting program I have started developing in CentOS 5... this comes after being able to get my ISA Dectalk PC 2 card working flawlessly in the 2.6 linux kernel. the new program I am designing is written in gcc and uses ncurses, and runs from a terminal. The program is designed to read any ordinary ascii text file, you can pause and resume in real time, you can move forward 10% to 90% using the 1 through 9 keys, 0 key rewinds the file to the start. Pressing T while the file is read will insert into the text to speech stream the percentage into the file you are at, and the amount of minutes that have been used reading. (takes a moment for it to be heard, but not too long). In order for the keyboard commands to be obeyed, of course, the terminal window must have the focus. ncurses must be linked into the program to provide keyboard support. The program also displays the line number and percentage into the file on the screen as the actual text itself is fed into Dectalk. So far, I have read the Diane C. startrek novel "Final Frontier", an excellant T.O.S. startrek novel, and had no problems at all following every detail. After this book, if you're a startrek fan, read "Best Destiny" about how James T. Kirk actually became captain, if you follow the novels. I imagine with some minor effort, this program could be adapted to Doubletalk ISA card as well, although it's not a high priority for me right now. This is the best program I have ever seen for the Dectalk, and not too shabby for a deprecated peice of hardware, lol. Inquiries should be sent to RadSurfer at yahoo.com //Rich// __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
