From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy@bellsouth.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: tiflolibros audio site and downloads
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 14:53:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000701c45177$c2e40ce0$6500a8c0@h2c8f0> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0406131249010.19424@maranatha.charter.net>
Hi,
The first url you gave, at least, works fine on my Windows machine. It is a
real human speaker, and not synthesized speech. No idea under Linux though.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak@charter.net>
To: "speakup" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 2:01 PM
Subject: tiflolibros audio site and downloads
> I'm wondering if anybody has done anything with tiflolibros
> www.tiflolibros.com.ar/
> You have to register and give proof of disability to get books (most of
> them Spanish) but I'm not sure if the format of the books is a text file
> of some kind that theta or festival could read or an audio file and since
> they don't mention linux I don't know if there are any problems
> downloading, though the downloads are apparently zip files which should
> not in and of themselves be a problem.
> Also, they had something up to which one could listen, using wmp. When I
> tried it on mplayer on this machine I got the start of cache fill and it
> looked like it was going to work; then I was told mplayer had crashed due
> to poor use of cpu, but since I play all sorts of other things with
> mplayer I wonder if it's this machine's setup or something else. Haven't
> tried it on my laptop yet, where I just recently freshly installed mplayer
> and a bunch of codecs. If somebody has time, could you check out either of
> the two urls below and see whether you can play them.
> Thanks.
>
> mms://www.jawsesp.com.ar/shua1.asf
> mms://www.jawsesp.com.ar/tato1.asf
>
>
> --
> Cheryl
>
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
>
>
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