From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from adsl-80-131-226.sdf.bellsouth.net ([65.80.131.226] helo=jaybird.no-ip.info) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZa7X-0003Lb-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 14:54:19 -0400 Received: from h2c8f0 (unknown [192.168.0.101]) by jaybird.no-ip.info (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D4363891 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 14:53:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000701c45177$c2e40ce0$6500a8c0@h2c8f0> From: "Jayson Smith" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 14:53:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Subject: Re: tiflolibros audio site and downloads X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jayson Smith , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:54:19 -0000 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" To: "speakup" 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." > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >