On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:08:36PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >You can do a lot with synthesized spoken language, but the
> >human "voice perception apparatus" reacts to them differently
> >than it does to a native (natural) voice, even if both say the
> >same text.
>
> until someone will mak
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 07:47:04AM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Polytropon wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > yes, the voices [from audio/festival] are pretty good; i use
> > > them to read boring stuff
> > >
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:08:59AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > yes, the voices [from audio/festival] are pretty good; i use
> > them to read boring stuff
> > to me when i'm about brain-dead! but these voices just don't cut
> >
You can do a lot with synthesized spoken language, but the
human "voice perception apparatus" reacts to them differently
than it does to a native (natural) voice, even if both say the
same text.
until someone will make speech synthetizer good enough ;)
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On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:47:04 -0500, Andrew Gould
wrote:
> This is a very good point. (Especially since Majel Barrett-Roddenberry,
> voice of the computer in the original tv series of "Star Trek," is no longer
> with us.)
You could employ the computer voice woman from "The Andromeda
Strain" (the
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > yes, the voices [from audio/festival] are pretty good; i use
> > them to read boring stuff
> > to me when i'm about brain-dead! but these voices just don't cut
> >
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:20:45 -0500, Andrew Gould
wrote:
> I've never done video editing on FreeBSD; but on a Mac, you can create a
> movie using slides and a sound file (wav, mp3, etc). You would need an
> application that could import images and sound, and let you sync the two by
> assigning th
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> yes, the voices [from audio/festival] are pretty good; i use
> them to read boring stuff
> to me when i'm about brain-dead! but these voices just don't cut
> it given the kind of quasi-poetic stuff i have.
Wouldn't i
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:20:45PM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> > > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline
> >
[[[ ... ]]]
>
> I've never done video editing on
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:38:06AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
> On Friday 24 April 2009, Gary Kline wrote:
> > This ought to help if I ever find a free speech synthesizer.
> > I found one yesterday that must be a real human voice;
> > unfortunately, commercial.
>
> audio/festival in th
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline
> wrote:
> > > tHat said: how can I experiment with translating my html into
> > > slideshow format? If this is a case of R
On Friday 24 April 2009, Gary Kline wrote:
> This ought to help if I ever find a free speech synthesizer.
> I found one yesterday that must be a real human voice;
> unfortunately, commercial.
audio/festival in the ports is decent and has a few voices to choose from.
JN
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > tHat said: how can I experiment with translating my html into
> > slideshow format? If this is a case of RTFM, where is the FM
> > page website that will get me goi
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> tHat said: how can I experiement with translating my html into
> slideshow format? If this is a case of RTFM, where is the FM
> page website that will get me going.?
For a "real slideshow" in terms of projected presentati
Am Donnerstag, den 23.04.2009, 14:36 -0700 schrieb Gary Kline:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 05:38:25PM +0200, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 22.04.2009, 00:23 -0700 schrieb Gary Kline:
> > > In any case, there are
> > > two questions for this list.
> > > The first, obviously,
Am Donnerstag, den 23.04.2009, 14:36 -0700 schrieb Gary Kline:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 05:38:25PM +0200, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 22.04.2009, 00:23 -0700 schrieb Gary Kline:
> > > In any case, there are
> > > two questions for this list.
> > > The first, obviously,
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:47:44AM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa
> wrote:
>
> > Am Mittwoch, den 22.04.2009, 00:23 -0700 schrieb Gary Kline:
> > > In any case, there are
> > > two questions for this list.
> > > The first, obvio
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 05:38:25PM +0200, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 22.04.2009, 00:23 -0700 schrieb Gary Kline:
> > In any case, there are
> > two questions for this list.
> > The first, obviously, is subjective and is:
> > would having my stuff in slideshow fm
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa
wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 22.04.2009, 00:23 -0700 schrieb Gary Kline:
> > In any case, there are
> > two questions for this list.
> > The first, obviously, is subjective and is:
> > would having my stuff in slideshow fmt
Am Mittwoch, den 22.04.2009, 00:23 -0700 schrieb Gary Kline:
> In any case, there are
> two questions for this list.
> The first, obviously, is subjective and is:
> would having my stuff in slideshow fmt gain me a wider readership?
Yes. Any sort of attractive presentatio
This is for anybody familiar with the "powerpoint" fmt docs/display,
and the openoffice.org equivalent, Impress. I have several dozen of
files
in several directories; each file (php or html--or can be xlated to xml)
had one or two jpeg graphics.
What I
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