From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HOJ5k-0001lz-00 for ; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:43:28 -0500 Received: from out1.internal (unknown [10.202.2.149]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 779F21F57A2 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:43:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by out1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:43:23 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: 0cyaoZTO45OUHEJh2WvCLp83Bl1npfa7nV9+KfQ+EcZb 1173123803 Received: from cq.ftml.net (24-105-197-112.cm.mhcable.com [24.105.197.112]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CABE23721 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:43:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from chuckh by cq.ftml.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HOJ5Y-0005Xo-74 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:43:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:43:16 -0500 From: Chuck Hallenbeck To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: OT: saytime program Message-ID: <20070305194316.GA21153@cq.ftml.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20070305194405.22919.10359@rif.myfreedombox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070305194405.22919.10359@rif.myfreedombox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "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: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:43:29 -0000 Cheryl, I use a program which came once as part of the flite package, called flite_time. It actually sounds pretty good in spite of its family of origin. The voice is drawn from a library of fixed utterances for better quality. Let me know if you would like a copy. I drive mine from a crontab to tell me the time every 15 minutes. Chuck On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:44:05PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Gene sent me the program and it sounds good but isn't really the one i > was looking for. The one i had used mp3 files and needed mpg123. By > typing saytime-1.0.tar.gz in google I found an article on the cli that > has people download that file--unfortunately the link now comes up dry. > I suspect that it may have been removed due to the use of mpg123, just > as I noticed in my reinstall of debian that mp3 encoding support now > has to be done from source. anyway, I'm really mad at myself; with all > the stuff I backed up, I don't know why that got left out. Just glad to > at least have the program with .au files from Gene. > > -- > Email services by FreedomBox. Surf the Net at the sound of your voice. > www.freedombox.info > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (97% of Full) But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh