From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from orion.sas.upenn.edu(ORION.SAS.UPENN.EDU[165.123.26.31]) (2991 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 20:02:04 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from karolina (DIALIN0877.UPENN.EDU [128.91.19.109]) by orion.sas.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with SMTP id UAA22809 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 20:02:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <005301bfcaac$ed23df40$6d135b80@karolina> From: "Victor Tsaran" To: References: Subject: Re: newer load_spk-0.8.tar.gz Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 20:04:18 -0700 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 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 List-Id: Hey, Jacob! Did you look through DoubleTalk's manual? I think they discuss some of these issues there. I wish I could give more details. Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Schmude" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 4:14 PM Subject: Re: newer load_spk-0.8.tar.gz > Thanks for the info. I tend to still use /usr/local to indicate > which software I have installed as opposed to which software was installed > by packages. It's a personal preference. > Thanks for the direct command, I didn't know that. Now I can play > with my doubletalk more. Any way to send an exception dictionary to the > synth for example, to speak spanish? I don't speak spanish, but it's fun > to play with it. > > On 30 May 2000, Kirk Reiser wrote: > > > Hi Jacob: We changed it to /usr/bin because we tend to use debian > > which doesn't use the /usr/local tree very much. /usr/local once had > > a purpose which was to place things which you were installing on a > > machine which hosted hundreds or thousands of users, in a place to > > indicate this was local to this machine only. We don't need that tree > > really anymore because most linux boxes are totally local themselves. > > Why have extra directories you don't need to look through when > > starting a command. > > > > I will look into including the entire voice range for doubletalk if we > > don't already. I thought we did. > > > > Loadspeak has had direct synth support since about v-0.3. The command > > is direct=. Imagine that! > > > > Kirk > > > > -- > > > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > > e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Jacob Schmude > mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net > ICQ: 53401220 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup