On Friday 15 April 2005 20:29, Silvan wrote: > On Friday 15 April 2005 01:38 pm, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > > 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 can see this if they're visually impaired in some way, or maybe > dyslexic, but for everyday use I would submit that if people have > trouble reading, they should just practice reading more. Reading is > good for you. :)
:-) I agree, and I'm not really sure who these kids are exactly and how they benefit from it. My girlfriend just briefly mentioned it when I played with KSayIt the first time. > I'm mostly just curious to see how it sounds. I played with TTS a > looooooooong time ago, back on DOS, and it sounded pretty dismal. > I've been hearing pretty good TTS coming out of NOAA (National > Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Weather Radio lately, and am > wondering if this new stuff can sound that good. The power of free > software and stuff. I'd have to say that the pronunciation still sounds a bit funny, and sometimes it can be a little bit difficult to hear what is being said. Back in 2001 I was technical project manager for a Danish ISP on a project where we were looking into a unified messaging system from Cisco which had TTS as part of it. It sounded pretty cool, I must say - the best I've ever heard. (project was later cancelled for reasons I cannot elaborate on). > Come to think of it, I ran into a guy the other day who's studying to > be a meteorologist. He's learning Linux because he says a lot of the > national weather forecasting stuff runs on Linux, having migrated > there from Unix. It may well be *exactly* the same thing. If so, > that would be kind of cool. > > > > 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). > > You're running JACK? What audio hardware? [ ... ] I'm not running JACK. I didn't even know if it until I googled a bit (assuming it is this one: jackit.sf.net ?) The audio hardware is merely something on-board (Dell Latitude laptop). I forget what it is - i810 audio, maybe. Sorry for not being able to help. 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]
