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On 23 Sep 04 at 13:59, keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org wrote:

>> The Czech numbers are heavily tweaked, the source file is
>> written phonetically, whereas the English numbers are written
>> in ordinary English words.
>
>Czech words are witten mostly phonetically.  You can pronounce them
>without many rules.  You just need to know that voiced consonants become
>unvoiced in some positions (before another unvoiced consonsant or at the end
>of a word).

Yes, Czech is a quite easy language. English and Russian are
terrible ;-)

>What do you mean about writing the source file
>phonetically?

Have a look at both test files. I doubled consonants and did all
kinds of changes until it started to sound like Czech numbers.

>I ran across one free adaptation of IE that talked.  Has anyone come up with
>a linux talking browser?  Links or lynx seem like better candidates for
>someone with no vision at all, but I suppose a graphical browser is better
>for people with some vision.

I saw another text-to-sound software project on the web, I think it
was called "speakup". But it involves compiling kernel...

>> 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.
>
>Was aumix tested in your test program?  I did not notice a readme file about
>it.

No, it is quite intuitive.

Christof

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