Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-28 12:13, Matthew Miller wrote: Oh, you'll also need the actual voice installed. . Ok, that seems like  a good reason ... Thanks for the help, Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 ___ use

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-28 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 11:56:30AM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : voice_cmu_us_clb_cg > closing a file left open: /home/bobg/.festivalrc > closing a file left open: /usr/share/festival/init.scm > festival: fatal error exiting. Oh, you'll also need the actual voice insta

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-28 10:47, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 10:06:23AM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: [bobg@WS-1 ~]$ cat  .festivalrc set! voice_default voice_cmu_us_clb_cg However /see the following when I try to use festival -/ [bobg@WS-1 ~]$ festival --tts tstgw SIOD ERROR: unbound vari

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-28 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 10:06:23AM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > [bobg@WS-1 ~]$ cat  .festivalrc > set! voice_default voice_cmu_us_clb_cg > > However /see the following when I try to use festival -/ > > [bobg@WS-1 ~]$ festival --tts tstgw > SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : voice_cmu_us_clb_cg > closi

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-28 00:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: Or should I just ms=ake .festivalrc a file? .festivalrc is a file.  You put those lines in it. . I removed the directory and put the line I was given into a file ".festivalrc" -rw-rw-r--. 1 bobg bobg 39 Jan 28 09:37 .festivalrc [bobg@WS-1 ~]$ cat 

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/27/21 7:58 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2021-01-26 23:09, Jon LaBadie wrote: On 2021-01-26 15:52, Matthew Miller wrote: You put configuration in ~/.festivalrc, in the form of commands in Lisp, like for example: (set! voice_default voice_cmu_us_clb_cg) There is also a "Duration_Stretch"

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-27 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-26 23:09, Jon LaBadie wrote: On 2021-01-26 15:52, Matthew Miller wrote: You put configuration in ~/.festivalrc, in the form of commands in Lisp, like for example: (set! voice_default voice_cmu_us_clb_cg) There is also a "Duration_Stretch" parameter that defaults to 1.0. Twenty

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-27 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 at 08:50, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I have Mil Reader listed in the menu on this computer. Can someone tell > me what the procedure is to make it read some text?Bob > Maybe EmacsSpeak can be useful: https://opensource.com/life/16/6/emacspeak-brings-linux-blind http://emacspe

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 04:11:22PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2021-01-26 15:52, Matthew Miller wrote: You put configuration in ~/.festivalrc, in the form of commands in Lisp, like for example: (set! voice_default voice_cmu_us_clb_cg) There is also a "Duration_Stretch" parameter that defa

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-26 15:52, Matthew Miller wrote: You put configuration in ~/.festivalrc, in the form of commands in Lisp, like for example: (set! voice_default voice_cmu_us_clb_cg) . I'll try that. Thanks, -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-26 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 02:13:02PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I would like to reconfigure the voice sound but have not determined > how to do it? The man page is not much help in this regard, there is > an option for language but I was not able to change it, it just > tells me English is installed

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-25 15:32, George N. White III wrote: At the time, festival had better voices than espeak (and festival currently has a Fedora package). . Upon reading that I "dnf installed festival" It is easy to us and does what I want from the command line, I can feed it any text file, it conve

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 16:20 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > I would argue that composing and sending email is part of the > definition of an email client. > Of course. I wouldn't describe an MUA as a "mail reader". > The evolution desktop entry actually > say

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 07:20:26AM +1030, Tim via users wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 11:32 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > With Evoluion, the .desktop file provides has a lot of hints that it > > is a mail reader. For example, these are all set: > > > > X

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread Jonathan Billings
an about software to make it easier to tell what it is. > > > > With Evoluion, the .desktop file provides has a lot of hints that it > > is a mail reader. For example, these are all set: > > > > "mail reader" is not very helpful as it misses the most of the

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 11:32 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > With Evoluion, the .desktop file provides has a lot of hints that it > is a mail reader. For example, these are all set: > > X-GNOME-FullName=Evolution Mail and Calendar > > Comment=Manage your email, con

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 14:36, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > On 2021-01-25 09:22, John Pilkington wrote: > > > > A quick search found 'espeak'. It seems to be installed on my el7 and > > Fedora 32 boxes and there was an article about it in the Fedora > > Magazine August 14, 2017 > > > > https://fedora

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread George N. White III
ication such as the name, icon, and description. These files are used for application launchers and for creating menus of applications that can be launched. That doesn't address the problem of totally different programs sharing similar names. > > With Evoluion, the .desktop file provides

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-25 09:22, John Pilkington wrote: A quick search found 'espeak'.  It seems to be installed on my el7 and Fedora 32 boxes and there was an article about it in the Fedora Magazine August 14, 2017 https://fedoramagazine.org/add-speech-fedora-system/ I haven't tried it, but it might

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread Jonathan Billings
onment know what applications are available and what they are for. With Evoluion, the .desktop file provides has a lot of hints that it is a mail reader. For example, these are all set: X-GNOME-FullName=Evolution Mail and Calendar Comment=Manage your email, contacts and schedule Keywords=ema

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 00:00, Tim via users wrote: > On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 14:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I really think it is silly ti use those generic names in the menu. I > > should change them all to something meaningful like the application > > name. > > There's some logic to it. I fo

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread John Pilkington
On 25/01/2021 12:49, John Pilkington wrote: On 25/01/2021 11:50, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2021-01-24 23:02, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 12:46 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: Orca might work if I could adjust the voice to something intelligible, the default;;t seems to lose syllables fr

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread John Pilkington
On 25/01/2021 11:50, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2021-01-24 23:02, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 12:46 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: Orca might work if I could adjust the voice to something intelligible, the default;;t seems to lose syllables from each word. Another approach might be tryi

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
hout my 'Merlin' CCTV to provide decent size images. I think the typical Fedora user is continually learning and enjoys doing so and doesn't need extraneous riddles in the application menu names, Like Mail Reader or any of the others cited in this thread. I should have known that

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-24 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 1/24/21 10:59 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 14:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: I really think it is silly ti use those generic names in the menu. I should change them all to something meaningful like the application name. There's some logic to it. I found the opposite proble

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 12:46 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Orca might work if I could adjust the voice to something > intelligible, the default;;t seems to lose syllables from each word. Another approach might be trying to find out whether a different voice is better, or if a different text-to-speech

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 14:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I really think it is silly ti use those generic names in the menu. I > should change them all to something meaningful like the application > name. There's some logic to it. I found the opposite problem when I've looked at KDE, in the past.

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-24 13:10, Doug H. wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2021, at 9:46 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I have Mail Reader listed in the menu on this computer.  Can someone tell me what the procedure is to make it read/speak some text? It does not respond to the same number pad  keys as Orca. Orca might

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-24 Thread Doug H.
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021, at 9:46 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I have Mail Reader listed in the menu on this computer.  Can someone > tell me what the procedure is to make it read/speak some text? > > It does not respond to the same number pad  keys as Orca. Orca might > work if I c

Mail Reader -

2021-01-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
I have Mail Reader listed in the menu on this computer.  Can someone tell me what the procedure is to make it read/speak some text? It does not respond to the same number pad  keys as Orca. Orca might work if I could adjust the voice to something intelligible, the default;;t seems to lose

Mail Reader -

2021-01-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
I have Mil Reader listed in the menu on this computer.  Can someone tell me what the procedure is to make it read some text?    Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedo

Re: Preferred Applications -> Mail Reader

2010-05-11 Thread Henrik Frisk
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 11:41 +0200, Henrik Frisk wrote: >> I had no idea even cc, subject and body could be specified in a mailto >> tag. > > *Can* be, but isn't going to work in all occasions.  I say that for > those who try to put such URIs in web pag

Re: Preferred Applications -> Mail Reader

2010-05-10 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 11:41 +0200, Henrik Frisk wrote: > I had no idea even cc, subject and body could be specified in a mailto > tag. *Can* be, but isn't going to work in all occasions. I say that for those who try to put such URIs in web pages, and expect them to work when someone clicks on the

Re: Preferred Applications -> Mail Reader

2010-05-10 Thread Henrik Frisk
is done seamlessly in Fedora when using Mutt and Evolution, and with the script I referenced below, also with Gmail. I've now been able to modify the script and make it work my way by putting the following in Preferred Applications -> Mail Reader -> Custom -> Command: perl -e

Re: Preferred Applications -> Mail Reader

2010-05-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
tart) I can now remotely create a new message to > >> t...@adddress.com in emacs by running the command: > >> > >> $ emacsclient -e '(mh-smail-batch "t...@adddress.com")'. > >> > >> However, i can't seem to figure out what the vari

Re: Preferred Applications -> Mail Reader

2010-05-08 Thread Henrik Frisk
the command: >> >> $ emacsclient -e '(mh-smail-batch "t...@adddress.com")'. >> >> However, i can't seem to figure out what the variable for the address >> is in the Custom option in the Mail Reader preference. I tried %s but >> that doesn't seem

Re: Preferred Applications -> Mail Reader

2010-05-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
; However, i can't seem to figure out what the variable for the address > is in the Custom option in the Mail Reader preference. I tried %s but > that doesn't seem to work. I know there's a standard for this somewhere. Try "mailto:t...@address.com";. poc --

Preferred Applications -> Mail Reader

2010-05-07 Thread Henrik Frisk
er-start) I can now remotely create a new message to t...@adddress.com in emacs by running the command: $ emacsclient -e '(mh-smail-batch "t...@adddress.com")'. However, i can't seem to figure out what the variable for the address is in the Custom option in the Mail Reader