On Wed, 10 May 2006 19:58:16 +1200
yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/05/06, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> > PS might be OK in its narrow domain, but outside
> > that it's not really suitable as a general purpose language.
>
> Who said anything about general purpose?
> My original comment was:
> "Wh
On 10/05/06, Carl Cerecke wrote:
PS might be OK in its narrow domain, but outside
that it's not really suitable as a general purpose language.
Who said anything about general purpose?
My original comment was:
"What a perfect language for my needs."
I didn't elaborate in those needs at the time
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 16:56, Col wrote:
> > It's a pity that most tts i have heard sounds like a sick robot
> > chewing large wads of chewing gum. Does anyone know how to get more
> > pleasant voices out of these beasts?
Apply huge globs of Dollars.
AT&T have done this and their voices sound ver
It's a pity that most tts i have heard sounds like a sick robot chewing
large wads of chewing gum. Does anyone know how to get more pleasant
voices out of these beasts?
I had this bookmarked. But my todo list is too long, so I haven't tried
it out yet.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_speechd
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 09:51, Neil Stockbridge wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 00:39 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > I also talked very briefly about the Festival/Mbrola/kttsd text to
> > speech system, and demonstrated it.
> >
> > http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/
>
> is there a
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:09 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:05 +1200, Neil Stockbridge wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:55 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> > > > > I also talked very briefly about the Festival/Mbrola/kttsd text to
> > > > > speech
> > > > > system, and demonstrated
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:07 +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> outside that [PostScript is] not really suitable as a general purpose
> language. There are plenty of other good languages to choose from.
Forth? :)
>
On 10/05/06, Derek Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
learning postscript is an excellent thing to do.
Well, for a few people maybe. I'm not sure it's valid as a general comment.
The blue and red books are really really well written. Just reading these
is a lesson in how to write good c
> It's a pity that most tts i have heard sounds like a sick robot chewing
> large wads of chewing gum.
Yes, that's exactly the tricky bit which requires oodles of somewhat
sophisticated research, and therefore everyone who's paid the PhDs to
solve the problem is treating it as a commercially sensi
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:09 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:05 +1200, Neil Stockbridge wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:55 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> > > > > I also talked very briefly about the Festival/Mbrola/kttsd text to
> > > > > speech
> > > > > system, and demonstrated
> knowing a bit of postscript is quite useful
Agreed. Often for making dvips header files, or trying to control a
printer.
> One particular example is when you deal with postscript figures in
> LaTeX. Some postscript generation programs generate incorrect
> boundingboxes, and this makes the enc
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:05 +1200, Neil Stockbridge wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:55 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> > > > I also talked very briefly about the Festival/Mbrola/kttsd text to
> > > > speech
> > > > system, and demonstrated it.
> > > >
> > > > http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/k
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:55 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> > > I also talked very briefly about the Festival/Mbrola/kttsd text to speech
> > > system, and demonstrated it.
> > >
> > > http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/
> >
> > is there a command-line interface to TTS that can be scripted?
Hi,
learning postscript is an excellent thing to do.
The blue and red books are really really well written. Just reading these
is a lesson in how to write good clear documentation.
knowing a bit of postscript is quite useful - there are times when it is
necessary to transform graphics manually
On Wed, 10 May 2006 09:51:19 +1200
Neil Stockbridge wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 00:39 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > I also talked very briefly about the Festival/Mbrola/kttsd text to speech
> > system, and demonstrated it.
> >
> > http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/
>
> is
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 00:39 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> I also talked very briefly about the Festival/Mbrola/kttsd text to speech
> system, and demonstrated it.
>
> http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/
is there a command-line interface to TTS that can be scripted? it would
be c
On 09/05/06, yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On a happier note --- I've started learning PostScript and I'm
delighted to find the syntax is almost identical to my trusty HP48s
calculator I've been carrying around for the last 14 years. What a
perfect language for my needs.
So you like inflicti
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 18:13, you wrote:
> > May's meeting will be tomorrow - Tuesday 9 May 2006 -
>
> After saying I would come, I discover I have an early start tomorrow
> morning, so at my age I need an early night.
At your age? - a mere spring cockerel - nonsense. :-)
> > The program is:
> >
May's meeting will be tomorrow - Tuesday 9 May 2006 -
After saying I would come, I discover I have an early start tomorrow
morning, so at my age I need an early night.
The program is:
Christopher Sawtell
===
I will be giving a half-hour talk on a few command line commands.
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:05, Col wrote:
3) I would appreciate some clues about getting the hotkey functions
initiated by the Fn keys on my R40 ThinkPad to go properly.
Do you have the thinkpad kernel module loaded? It's under the acpi
stuff.
Yes, acpi and ibm_acp
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:05, Col wrote:
> > 3) I would appreciate some clues about getting the hotkey functions
> > initiated by the Fn keys on my R40 ThinkPad to go properly.
>
> Do you have the thinkpad kernel module loaded? It's under the acpi
> stuff.
Yes, acpi and ibm_acpi are both loaded and
3) I would appreciate some clues about getting the hotkey functions
initiated by the Fn keys on my R40 ThinkPad to go properly.
Do you have the thinkpad kernel module loaded? It's under the acpi stuff.
Col.
On Monday 08 May 2006 21:25, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> Greetings to CLUG Listers and Others Interested in Linux.
>
> May's meeting will be tomorrow - Tuesday 9 May 2006 -
So sorry forgot the details about time and place etc:-
Pre-Meeting Meal at the Caly in Caledonian Road From 6:00pm
Meeting
Greetings to CLUG Listers and Others Interested in Linux.
May's meeting will be tomorrow - Tuesday 9 May 2006 -
The program is:
Christopher Sawtell
===
I will be giving a half-hour talk on a few command line commands.
See:- http://www.lpi.org/en/obj_101.html
See Section 1.103.2
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