From a very busy (200+ messages a day) SuSE list. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [SLE] text to voice Date: 02 Jan 2004 02:18:45 -0500 From: Mark Gray <markgray-temp-1072781312@iago.nac.net> To: SLE <suse-linux-e@suse.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0401012242030.3419@nimrodel.valinor> "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@tiscali.es> writes:

Hi,

Is there a program that can convert text to voice?

Even better, use the PC loudspeaker, instead of the soundcard?

I think I remember some one mentioning a speaking clock :-?

I use rsynth-2.0 -- the linux driver included is 8 bit only (and needs a one line fix for it to work with SuSE). I have hacked together a 16-bit OSS (compatability) driver for it if you are interested. I have plans to write a native alsa and arts driver for it. The voices that festival produces are _slightly_ more natural sounding, but festival takes several seconds to start up on my K6-2/500 whereas rsynth starts instantaneously even on a K5/100. I used to use saytime to "chime" the time, but it writes headerless mu-law files to /dev/audio, and that causes SuSE-9.0 to hang solid looping, saying the time over and over, and the computer becomes totally unresponsive (an alsa OSS compatibility bug I have been too lazy to report). I now use a perl script to call rsynth to chime the quarter hour (also available if you are interested, but it is such a simple script I doubt there will be any takers.) -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user (apart from Quicken) Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Using SuSE 9.0 with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================