On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 17:04 -0500, Michael Weiner wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 12:05 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > Can anyone suggest an application to convert > > text to voice audio to read e-mail, etc. aloud? > > Check out festival (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/) along > with VOCP (http://vocp.sourceforge.net/). > > HTH > Michael Weiner Is any one familiar with the windows program Zoom Text from AI Squared? Is there something for Linux? I set it up for my mother to use their large TV as the screen, the program and video card allow for both a regular monitor and TV screen. I was going to contact them but I'm tired of the "Linux?" You're not worth it answer. "We only DO windows" If anyone is interested in a project like this post a reply and I will see if the Federal Government has any grant money. I'm not a programmer, so I'm just a useless end user. She gets books on tape from the library of Congress with a machine to play them on, and all tapes and postage to and from are free. So an open source project may be something they would be interested in. OT - "if you don't like OT stuff then stop reading" I just saw on the news a chimp head robot, I was thinking with speech recognition and a printer you could replace the people at the counter at most government offices with chimp heads. Ask your question and get a form, as that's all you would get from a real person anyway. Then all the employees can get back to surfing the web, since no government employee will ever lose their job :-) No, I don't think every government employee is the same as a disembodied chimp head, some of you work very hard, and thank you. BUT, sometimes I'd rather take the chimp head. Tim...
