On Friday 15 April 2005 17:34, Silvan wrote: > On Friday 15 April 2005 04:43 am, Ian Eure wrote: > > FWIW, the whole KDE tts system worked for me out-of-the-box. I > > hadn't played with KSayIt, but I just tried it and it works (though > > I'm mystified as to what it's supposed to be used for). The > > configuration isn't obvious at all, but I figured it out. > > > > What I did was: > > I did all that too, but I haven't heard a peep out of it yet. I just > tried turning off JACK, and still no joy. It's "doing something," > but I can't hear the results due to audio configuration > uncertainties. Oh well, this whole thing probably isn't worth > further trouble. I agree with your position above, in that I am also > mystified as to what this is supposed to be used for.
For one thing, it could be useful for those who have trouble reading. At least I know of some Danish schools (my girlfriend teaches in elementary shcool) where kids who have trouble reading can scan a book and have the TTS read it for them. :) > I have > new-toy-itis here, but no pressing need. I'll go find something more > amusing to do. Maybe by the time I get bored enough to look at this > again someone will have figured out how to get all of this to play > nice with JACK. Not that it helps you in any way, but it worked for me here on KDE 3.4.0 without much hassle (forgot what I did to make it work, but it was nothing special). Best regards, -- Frederik Dannemare | http://sentinel.dk | http://linuxworlddomination.dk http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=Frederik+Dannemare http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/FrederikDannemare Key fingerprint = 30CF 7AD3 17D9 1A63 A730 ECA6 0D4C 2C97 9D9A 238E -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
