On Tue 02 Mar 04, 12:23 PM, Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:21:36AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > has anybody here used this plugin? > > Yes, I've used Konq's speech plugin in the past. Not sure the absolute > latest has support for this, though. > > You might consider using Lynx or Links to do this, as well. Just have it > dump the rendered HTML as plaintext and then play it with Festival. > (I think Konq's speech stuff was just a front-end to Festival, anyway). > > Good luck! > > -bill!
hi bill, thanks for the reply. i took your advice, and festival is very close to being good. the quality is just a *tad* too poor. here's a page that i'd like to be read to me: http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm [note: there are a few equations that are image files, but my mind can fill those in, i don't need to be read the equations.] the problem is that the speech is a bit too poor. it's quite effective to listen to while i read along. my eyes don't have to focus as much, and they don't get as fatigued as they do when i read long paragraphs on the screen. i noticed there are a few voice files. i installed the 16k higher quality ones: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg -l "*vox*" | grep -v none festvox-ellpc1 1.4.0-3 Castilian Spanish male speaker for Festival festvox-kallpc 1.4.0-4 American English male speaker for festival festvox-kdlpc1 1.4.0-4 American English male speaker for festival do you know, offhand, how to tell which voice file i'm using? any quick tips on improving quality? thanks! pete -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
