From johnatl@mac.com Wed Aug 25 19:17:51 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.86]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C09pn-0000Wo-0e for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:17:51 -0700 Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i7Q2Hqao024134 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:17:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mac.com (user-11faihl.dsl.mindspring.com [66.245.74.53]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin01/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id i7Q2HpS1023406 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:17:15 -0400 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Check pronunciation, please? Content-Type: text/plain; delsp=yes; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) From: John Johnson To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org In-Reply-To: <20040826005308.GV16339@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Message-Id: <0C194222-F706-11D8-85F3-000A9589294C@mac.com> X-archive-position: 756 X-Approved-By: johnatl@mac.com 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: johnatl@mac.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Not sure why it wanted to binhex them all. I just uploaded a .zip of the .wav. Hopefully that will work. Thanks. Regards, JJ On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, at 08:53 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > 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!" > >