Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org 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

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:20:45 -0500, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com 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

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Andrew Gould
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org 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

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:47:04 -0500, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com 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

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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 ;)

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:08:59AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org 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

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 07:47:04AM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: yes, the voices [from audio/festival] are pretty good; i use them to read

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Gary Kline
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 make speech

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-24 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org 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

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org 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

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-24 Thread John Nielsen
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

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-24 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: tHat said: how can I experiment with translating my html into slideshow

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-24 Thread Gary Kline
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 the ports

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:20:45PM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org [[[ ... ]]] I've

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-23 Thread 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, is subjective and is: would having my stuff in slideshow fmt gain

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-23 Thread Gary Kline
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 ulr...@pukruppa.netwrote: Am Mittwoch, den 22.04.2009, 00:23 -0700 schrieb Gary Kline: In any case, there are two questions for this list. The first,

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
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, is

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
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, is

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-22 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
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 presentation

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-22 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa ulr...@pukruppa.netwrote: 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