-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lorenzo, I went with flite because it is the speech-dispatcher default, and it worked well on the test file that threw espeak a curve. Basically I just implemented what I have on hand to play with, which was flite, espeak, and a couple of swift voices. Plus festival of course. Chuck On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 12:31:38AM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote: > > I tried mailing you at your old address, which was not listening. > > Yup. Sorry about that. Actually I think my old address still receives > mail, but I just don't check it anymore. It just got way too big to keep > up with. I also like the fact that gmail automatically archives > everything as I receive it so I never lose anything. My biggest mistake > with the old address was subscribing to way too many lists and not being > able to send unsubscribe messages to some of them because they blacklist > my server. Get this: they think I'm a spammer just because my ISP > changes my IP address a couple of times a year. <frown> Well, so far I > have been able to keep up with this box pretty well and hopefully I > won't be changing it. > > I will definitely be giving your little program a try, and I'm glad > eSpeak can be configured as the default. Just curious though as to why > flite is still the default now that eSpeak works, especially since > eSpeak is now the default synthesizer at least in Ubuntu. In fact, in > Ubuntu, eSpeak, AFAIK, is installed automatically, at least it installs > automatically if I use the screen reader option when booting. However > flite isn't installed by default and must be obtained through Universe. > Of course most of the other helper programs aren't installed by default > in Ubuntu either, so this isn't a criticism or rant, it's simply an > acute curiosity. <smile> > > Ahead warp factor 1, > Lorenzo > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (95% of Full) My web site is located at: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. A.N. Turing, 1950 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHSprd0maTgpPXM9cRAhPsAJ9k8uxmxK1EoWQQ8Au2l1nphvQfnQCfZsoC Li3StsCb+ITA8VhdjVO3NWs= =K4Cf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
