Re: Generating voice files was Re: gperiodic

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

Ok, the cvs snapshot should include the expiremental sound code.
There are of course no sound/pronounciation files yet, but when they
appear, the app should be ready for them.

gperiodic -s

to enable sound play.  It currently looks in /usr/share/gperiodic/sounds/<lang>
for files that match <element name>.wav, and attempts to write them to
/dev/dsp

you can override the default sound path with the -d command line swtich.

k

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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Roger Dingledine wrote:

> > Regardless, there are utilities available for Linux (sox(1) for example) that 
> > can be used to convert between the formats fairly easily.
>  
> The audio thing is a really neat idea. The format of the audio files
> shouldn't be that relevant - either wav or au will work just fine,
> and as you say we can convert between them once somebody decides.
> (Note that the SoX CVS repository is hosted by SEUL. Convenient,
> that. :)
> 
> What we should really be considering here is ways of getting people
> to donate audio files in various languages.
> 
> (Yes, an audio file is an audio file, no matter what OS you
> created it in.)
> 
> I wonder about comparing audio clips, so the user can mention an
> element and it flashes, and then zeroes in on the one he said.
> But that's for a different month, I should think. :)
> 
> --Roger
> 
>