From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 25 17:53:09 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C08Vo-00070x-Ss for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:53:09 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:53:08 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Check pronunciation, please? Message-ID: <20040826005308.GV16339@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <1EDB46EC-F6F9-11D8-85F3-000A9589294C@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1EDB46EC-F6F9-11D8-85F3-000A9589294C@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 754 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:44:43PM -0400, John Johnson wrote: > Since I have no one to speak lojban too, and since the > pronunciation is so well defined, it sounds like an ideal > application for a speech synthesizer. You would think so. :-/ (Sorry, I'm a bit bitter because people have tried this so many times, and I don't have the skills to do it myself). http://www.lojban.org/tiki//tiki-index.php?page=Lojban+diphone+speech+synthesizer http://www.lojban.org/twiki/bin/view/Files/SoundFiles -- near the bottom is more FestVox stuff. > I haven't found one on the > web yet, so I've been working on my own, using the speech synth > built into Mac OS X. If one of you have time, could you listen to > > http://homepage.mac.com/johnatl/.cv/johnatl/Public/mi_viska.aiff-binhex.hqx > or > http://homepage.mac.com/johnatl/.cv/johnatl/Public/mi_viska.wav-binhex.hqx > > and let me know if it's even close to being right? That's *really* hard for Windows users to deal with. Is it possible for you to make zip versions? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"