[lojban-beginners] lojban synthesis with mac os speech

2007-06-22 Thread David Cortesi
Discussion of sounds of lojban speech reminded me that speech synthesis is built into Mac OS X (actually it has been there since about OS 7, a decade ago at least) and that it is easily invoked from either Applescript of from the OS X command line. Wasted a perfectly good afternoon cobbling toget

[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V6 #110

2007-06-22 Thread der Mouse
>> The problem is not just one of "habit and training". The problem is >> that the brain actually loses the ability to distinguish between >> phonemes that are not consequential in their language. Surely this is not so much totally losing that ability as it is just losing the ability to make ling

[lojban-beginners] Re: online e-learning

2007-06-22 Thread Matt Arnold
I have the exact same problem. Can you tell me how to fix it? -Eppcott On 6/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Selon "Jon \\Top Hat\\ Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think I fixed the problem Glad to hear that. Martin

[lojban-beginners] Re: online e-learning

2007-06-22 Thread m . kornig
Selon "Jon \\Top Hat\\ Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think I fixed the problem Glad to hear that. Martin

[lojban-beginners] Re: online e-learning

2007-06-22 Thread Jon \"Top Hat\" Jones
On 6/22/07, Hans Isbrücker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use firefox without these problems. mu'o mi'e xans/e'ans On 6/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Selon "Jon \\Top Hat\\ Jones" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > it may be that > > whatever firefox program does the playback

[lojban-beginners] Re: online e-learning

2007-06-22 Thread Hans Isbrücker
I use firefox without these problems. mu'o mi'e xans/e'ans On 6/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Selon "Jon \\Top Hat\\ Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > it may be that > whatever firefox program does the playback on my box cuts off the end. Even > if that's true, there's reall

[lojban-beginners] Re: online e-learning

2007-06-22 Thread m . kornig
Selon "Jon \\Top Hat\\ Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > it may be that > whatever firefox program does the playback on my box cuts off the end. Even > if that's true, there's really not much I could do about it. This also > happens to me for the cmene in 1.3- {djein} sounds like {djei}, and so on. >

[lojban-beginners] communication problems

2007-06-22 Thread m . kornig
Hello, This has happened twice now: I post a request here (.i.e. send an email to lojban-beginners@lojban.org) but it just disapears and never shows up later. Do you select and suppress messages manually? Martin