From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from jscp.pbsl.jscp.org(dap-208-1-140-145.erie-tnt-1.pa.erie.net[208.1.140.145]) (2323 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 19:18:06 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from localhost (jacobs@localhost) by jscp.pbsl.jscp.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e4UNEcW00472 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 19:14:50 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: jscp.pbsl.jscp.org: jacobs owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 19:14:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Jacob Schmude X-Sender: jacobs@jscp.pbsl.jscp.org To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: newer load_spk-0.8.tar.gz In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: 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