NOW what?

[Gary Kline]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:32:29AM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote:
> 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. 
>  


	My environment is primarily KDE, with some Gnome apps.  I'm
	running 7.1 right now but will soon upgrade to 7.3.  It is
	not a bug that Konqueror is the only browser to offer the
	festival speech uyilities;  but it would be nice if other
	browsers had the same option.

	gary


> Sincerely,
> 
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