NOW what?
Byung-Hee HWANG
bh at izb.knu.ac.kr
Tue Feb 16 02:32:47 UTC 2010
Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> writes:
> [...]
> If you look is /usr/ports/audio you will find the festival
> ports.
> 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jan 25 20:13 festival
> 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 27 03:07 festival-freebsoft-utils
> 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 8 2009 festlex-cmu
>
> are some of them. When you use the Konqueror browser and
> have festival correctly installed, you can mouse-swipe a
> bunch of text and click on the Tools drop-down and have the
> text read aloud to you.
>
> It is fairly difficult to get a computer produce human
> speech. I found out just some of the problems recently when
> I began looking at some of the code. Much of festival is
> written in C++; that I understand somewhat. Other parts are
> written in some kind of LISP; I do not understand LISP very
> well.
LISP is from Tao. That's why it is not easy to people.
> Anyway, the point here is that when I find a long,
> long essay on some philosopher and have to read it, having is
> spoken to me is *MUCH* easier than making my eyes struggle
> thru the essay.
>
> So far, there are plug-ins to firefox-3 that attempt to read
> text to you, but nothing I can get to work. Gnome probably
> does have speech apps by now, but they probably rely on
> festival as a back-end.
Well i cannot produce the problem on my desktop -- FreeBSD
8.0-RELEASE. And for now, actually i can't launch firefox because my
memory is so low (256M). Instead i use epiphany, which play well under
low memory system. Then your -RELEASE version and default GUI
environment(eg., KDE, GNOME)?
Or i'd like to say that you should take to report as bug by send-pr.
Sincerely,
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