Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 22:48:00 -0500 From: David McNett <nugget@slacker.com> To: Doug Lee <dgl@visi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speech output software? Message-ID: <20000909224759.A9862@dazed.slacker.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009092137470.3072-100000@kirk.dsl.visi.com>; from dgl@visi.com on Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:40:17PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009092137470.3072-100000@kirk.dsl.visi.com>
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On 09-Sep-2000, Doug Lee wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a package for FreeBSD which would do text-to-speech
> using either a sound card or the internal PC speaker or both? At this
> point, I'm not looking for a full-fledged screen reader (though I'd like
> to know of any of those which run on FreeBSD also); I just need something
> which will say what I tell it to say without requiring a hardware speech
> synthesizer.
/usr/ports/audio/rsynth will do what you want. from DESCR:
This is a text to speech system produced by integrating various
pieces of code and tables of data, which are all (I believe) in
the public domain.
The Oxford Text Archive has for several years maintained copies
of several machine-readable dictionaries along with its extensive
(if unsystematic) collections of other machine-readable texts.
This document gives some further details of the various
dictionaries available, and summarises the conditions under which
copies of them are currently distributed.
The Oxford Text Archive Shortlist (available on request via
electronic mail and by FTP) gives up to date brief details of all
texts held in the Archive. Send electronic mail to
ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK. For anonymous FTP, look in the
directory ota on ota.ox.ac.uk (129.67.1.165)
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