maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

[Andrew Gould]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> >       yes, the voices [from audio/festival] are pretty good; i use
> >       them to read boring stuff
> >       to me when i'm about brain-dead!  but these voices just don't cut
> >       it given the kind of quasi-poetic stuff i have.
>
> Wouldn't it be easier to use a natural speaker then? I know there's
> no such person in the ports collection... :-)
>
>
This is a very good point.  (Especially since Majel Barrett-Roddenberry,
voice of the computer in the original tv series of "Star Trek," is no longer
with us.)

Writings of such a human nature deserve a real human's voice and
interpretation.