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Re: [SLE] A Clock that talks, chimes, screams, plays music, or something?
  • From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:21:40 +0200
  • Message-id: <200210210921.40380.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 21 October 2002 08.34, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> > There are some TTS products out there for Linux. Infortunately, I'm not
> > sure what it takes to make them work. I downloaded the Emacspeak. It
> > built and installed ok, but when I tried to find the info pages (I didn't
> > look very hard) I didn't find them. I may return to this topic. One of
> > the projects I'm interested in is reconstruction of Old Germanic
> > phonology using TTS.
> >
> > There's some really cool work available in Old English. I started to
> > look inot it, but due to time limitations, was unable to follow through
> > on it.

Did you solve your original problem? Because FreeTTS (freetts.sourceforge.net)
has a demo of a speaking clock that sounds just like what you originally
wanted. Requires nothing to run except a working java installed.

Anders

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