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On 23 Sep 04 at 4:00, keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org wrote:

>
>I just installed this (with pkg) in the latest BL3 and it all worked (with
>defaults for sb.o).  I ran the 'test' and played the 'welcome.wav' with play
>and tried out 'say' on files and words.  I heard 'test' count to ten in
>Czech.  But when I use 'say' on other files they all have a Czech accent!
>Is this a Czech program?  The final voiced sounds (d) become unvoiced (t).
>th sounds like f.

1. Did you try command line options?

The Czech numbers are heavily tweaked, the source file is
written phonetically, whereas the English numbers are written
in ordinary English words.

>The quality is about that of the little program that comes from
>Creative, whose name I forget.  Not quite as good as the local
>weather forecast. Thanks for sharing your work.

It is amazing how this very small program can work at all with
English language that hardly has any pronounciation rules.
The website where I looked for download was at a German university.
I am afraid that 'say' has been just a toy and has not been devoloped
further. But there are probably rules, conventions, and scientific
approaches to do something similar on a higher level, eg. for the
visual impaired.

Here are two more sound topics:

2. Yesterday I tried to record a wav file from an analog input in BL2.
The recording script (not yet uncluded in my sound packet) makes use
of sox and aumix (in BL2 I use even smaller program called umix). So
it should work in BL3, too. Recording, however, presumes that you
have several hundereds of MB room on your hard disk partitions. If
you want to edit wav files, even more. And this is probably is
nothing for low-end processors, either.

3. Obviously beyond BL is editing wav files. Here, GUI and using
mouse makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately I I was not able to compile
any of those smaller or larger applications available on the web. The
ordinary Slackware 7.1 environment seemed not be sufficient. Compiler
complained mainly about the GTK version (or its installation?). In
the end I found a binary taon-0.6b that does everything I need, but
works only in BL2, source is not available. This could be posted as
BL2 add-on. What do you think, Steven?

Christof

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