On Monday 30 May 2005 01:07, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Alternatively, install festival and set up a filter to "tell" you who the mail is from: echo "new mail from mum" | festival --tts No ... THANK ... _*YOU*_!!! Gag. I can't stand the stupid elevator at work that tells me it's "going up" and "going down" and "third floor" and all that nonsense. There's
Andrew, precious little for which vocal output from a computer is to my taste. Gag. By the way, I gave it a try. It's one of the poorer implementations of algorithmic text-to-speech I've heard. And lastly, I think that sound is an underused form of information output, but speech? No way. It needs much technical improvement before it's even an option, and even then, there just isn't much for which it's better than textual output. Randall Schulz I agree the quality of the simple script I have is dubious. But its task is to notify me of emails from certain customers that require immediate attention - especially when I am working at another desk. And for that it is the perfect tool. A.