Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-28 12:13, Matthew Miller wrote: Oh, you'll also need the actual voice installed. . Ok, that seems like  a good reason ... Thanks for the help, Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 ___

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-28 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 11:56:30AM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : voice_cmu_us_clb_cg > closing a file left open: /home/bobg/.festivalrc > closing a file left open: /usr/share/festival/init.scm > festival: fatal error exiting. Oh, you'll also need the actual voice

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-28 10:47, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 10:06:23AM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: [bobg@WS-1 ~]$ cat  .festivalrc set! voice_default voice_cmu_us_clb_cg However /see the following when I try to use festival -/ [bobg@WS-1 ~]$ festival --tts tstgw SIOD ERROR: unbound

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-28 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 10:06:23AM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > [bobg@WS-1 ~]$ cat  .festivalrc > set! voice_default voice_cmu_us_clb_cg > > However /see the following when I try to use festival -/ > > [bobg@WS-1 ~]$ festival --tts tstgw > SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : voice_cmu_us_clb_cg >

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-28 00:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: Or should I just ms=ake .festivalrc a file? .festivalrc is a file.  You put those lines in it. . I removed the directory and put the line I was given into a file ".festivalrc" -rw-rw-r--. 1 bobg bobg 39 Jan 28 09:37 .festivalrc [bobg@WS-1 ~]$ cat 

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/27/21 7:58 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2021-01-26 23:09, Jon LaBadie wrote: On 2021-01-26 15:52, Matthew Miller wrote: You put configuration in ~/.festivalrc, in the form of commands in Lisp, like for example: (set! voice_default voice_cmu_us_clb_cg) There is also a

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-27 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-26 23:09, Jon LaBadie wrote: On 2021-01-26 15:52, Matthew Miller wrote: You put configuration in ~/.festivalrc, in the form of commands in Lisp, like for example: (set! voice_default voice_cmu_us_clb_cg) There is also a "Duration_Stretch" parameter that defaults to 1.0. Twenty

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-27 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 at 08:50, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I have Mil Reader listed in the menu on this computer. Can someone tell > me what the procedure is to make it read some text?Bob > Maybe EmacsSpeak can be useful: https://opensource.com/life/16/6/emacspeak-brings-linux-blind

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 04:11:22PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2021-01-26 15:52, Matthew Miller wrote: You put configuration in ~/.festivalrc, in the form of commands in Lisp, like for example: (set! voice_default voice_cmu_us_clb_cg) There is also a "Duration_Stretch" parameter that

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-26 15:52, Matthew Miller wrote: You put configuration in ~/.festivalrc, in the form of commands in Lisp, like for example: (set! voice_default voice_cmu_us_clb_cg) . I'll try that. Thanks, -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-26 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 02:13:02PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I would like to reconfigure the voice sound but have not determined > how to do it? The man page is not much help in this regard, there is > an option for language but I was not able to change it, it just > tells me English is

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-25 15:32, George N. White III wrote: At the time, festival had better voices than espeak (and festival currently has a Fedora package). . Upon reading that I "dnf installed festival" It is easy to us and does what I want from the command line, I can feed it any text file, it

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 16:20 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > I would argue that composing and sending email is part of the > definition of an email client. > Of course. I wouldn't describe an MUA as a "mail reader". > The evolution desktop entry actually > says it does calendaring (which I

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 07:20:26AM +1030, Tim via users wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 11:32 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > With Evoluion, the .desktop file provides has a lot of hints that it > > is a mail reader. For example, these are all set: > > > > X-GNOME-FullName=Evolution Mail

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 03:29:59PM -0400, George N. White III wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 12:33, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:27:07AM -0400, George N. White III wrote: > > > It is probably time to have a system of unique identifiers. Package > > > managers would

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 11:32 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > With Evoluion, the .desktop file provides has a lot of hints that it > is a mail reader. For example, these are all set: > > X-GNOME-FullName=Evolution Mail and Calendar > > Comment=Manage your email, contacts and schedule > >

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 14:36, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > On 2021-01-25 09:22, John Pilkington wrote: > > > > A quick search found 'espeak'. It seems to be installed on my el7 and > > Fedora 32 boxes and there was an article about it in the Fedora > > Magazine August 14, 2017 > > > >

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 12:33, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:27:07AM -0400, George N. White III wrote: > > It is probably time to have a system of unique identifiers. Package > > managers would need to provide a way to search for these ID's. > > That is what the XDG

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-25 09:22, John Pilkington wrote: A quick search found 'espeak'.  It seems to be installed on my el7 and Fedora 32 boxes and there was an article about it in the Fedora Magazine August 14, 2017 https://fedoramagazine.org/add-speech-fedora-system/ I haven't tried it, but it

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:27:07AM -0400, George N. White III wrote: > It is probably time to have a system of unique identifiers. Package > managers would need to provide a way to search for these ID's. That is what the XDG Desktop entry spec[1] is for. It helps the desktop environment know

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 00:00, Tim via users wrote: > On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 14:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I really think it is silly ti use those generic names in the menu. I > > should change them all to something meaningful like the application > > name. > > There's some logic to it. I

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread John Pilkington
On 25/01/2021 12:49, John Pilkington wrote: On 25/01/2021 11:50, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2021-01-24 23:02, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 12:46 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: Orca might work if I could adjust the voice to something intelligible, the default;;t seems to lose syllables

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread John Pilkington
On 25/01/2021 11:50, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2021-01-24 23:02, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 12:46 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: Orca might work if I could adjust the voice to something intelligible, the default;;t seems to lose syllables from each word. Another approach might be

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-24 23:02, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 12:46 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: Orca might work if I could adjust the voice to something intelligible, the default;;t seems to lose syllables from each word. Another approach might be trying to find out whether a different voice

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-24 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 1/24/21 10:59 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 14:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: I really think it is silly ti use those generic names in the menu. I should change them all to something meaningful like the application name. There's some logic to it. I found the opposite

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 12:46 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Orca might work if I could adjust the voice to something > intelligible, the default;;t seems to lose syllables from each word. Another approach might be trying to find out whether a different voice is better, or if a different

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 14:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I really think it is silly ti use those generic names in the menu. I > should change them all to something meaningful like the application > name. There's some logic to it. I found the opposite problem when I've looked at KDE, in the past.

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-24 13:10, Doug H. wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2021, at 9:46 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I have Mail Reader listed in the menu on this computer.  Can someone tell me what the procedure is to make it read/speak some text? It does not respond to the same number pad  keys as Orca. Orca might

Re: Mail Reader -

2021-01-24 Thread Doug H.
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021, at 9:46 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I have Mail Reader listed in the menu on this computer.  Can someone > tell me what the procedure is to make it read/speak some text? > > It does not respond to the same number pad  keys as Orca. Orca might > work if I could adjust the