"Carlos E. R."
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.)
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Mark Gray