Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 23:12:27 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: David McNett <nugget@slacker.com> Cc: Doug Lee <dgl@visi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speech output software? Message-ID: <20000909231227.A21017@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20000909224759.A9862@dazed.slacker.com>; from "David McNett" on Sat Sep 9 22:48:00 GMT 2000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009092137470.3072-100000@kirk.dsl.visi.com> <20000909224759.A9862@dazed.slacker.com>
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In the last episode (Sep 09), David McNett said: > 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: If you want higher-quality speech, check out Festival at http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ . Not easy to build or use, but it generates much better output. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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