[ltp] thinkpad speaking

eduardo linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:10:58 +0000



Tom Rockwell wrote:
> 
> Interesting question, I haven't tried to do this in linux.  I've played
> with
> speech synth a little bit on VMS (used for warnings in a control room).
> 
> A search of www.freshmeat.net turned up http://www.SpeechIO.org/ and
> http://www.op.net/~darxus/speechio/dl/
> 
> Tell us how it works out.
> 
> Tom
> 





> tom, eduardo - the best speech output (IMHO) is the festival system:
> 
> www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/download.html
> 
> i use it with this:
> 
> lynx -dump http://dailynews.yahoo.com/tx/ts/summary.html >news.raw
> tail -115 | festival --tts
> 
> to download and read news headlines...
> 
> hth
> 
> billy ball
> 



> Also look at 'festival'.  (Use a search engine.)

> -Wayne





>    ViaVoice Outloud does that.  It's VERY good too.  It can have customized
> voices!!  Search on IBM's website for the free download.  it's rather large
> though.
> 
> - --
> 
> George Staikos




> Viavoice I'm sure this is available in Beta on IBM's site...

> Drei :-)




Thank you people!!!

I'll try out these products. After, I'll describe the experiences
related  to it.

Regards
-- 
Eduardo Cruz
mailto:eduardo@campinas.net
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