[Bryan, sorry 'bout the double-whammy. I hit the wrong button.] On Monday 21 October 2002 02:12 am, Steven T. Hatton wrote:

On Sunday 20 October 2002 08:36 pm, Bryan Tyson wrote:

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I have done it with cron. Basically I created wavs announcing the time every 10 minutes and have cron play them. I have done the wavs by recording my own voice with rec. I got tired of my own voice, so then I used the Microsoft text-to-speech synthesizer that lets you type into a text box and it creates a wav of what you typed. You can adjust the sound of the voice. There is a variety of shareware available that uses the MS text-to-speech synthesizer.

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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.

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