>> Just wondering if there is any speech synthesis programs available >> for RH8 (or Unix in general)? Jeff> Sun labs has a nice JAVA text to speech engine and application Jeff> being developed on SourceForge. Also take a look at festival; it's on the second RH 8.0 CD. Output from "rpm -qi festival": Name : festival Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1.4.2 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 12 Build Date: Wed 14 Aug 2002 05:17:17 PM MDT Install date: Tue 01 Oct 2002 Build Host: daffy.perf.redhat.com Group : Applications/Multimedia Source RPM: festival-1.4.2-12.src.rpm Size : 67919588 License: BSD Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 03 Sep 2002 04:35:47 PM MDT, Key ID 219180cddb42a60e Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> URL : http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ Summary : A speech synthesis system. Description : Festival is a general purpose, multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at CSTR. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well as an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It is written in C++ with a Scheme-based command interpreter for general control. -- Ron Olsen ron_olsen@qwest.net -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list