From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Feb 21 08:57:25 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:57:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NjF7U-0005y7-57 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:57:24 -0800 Received: from n7.bullet.re3.yahoo.com ([68.142.237.92]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NjF67-0005bi-6Q for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:56:08 -0800 Received: from [68.142.237.89] by n7.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 21 Feb 2010 16:55:52 -0000 Received: from [66.196.114.74] by t5.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 21 Feb 2010 16:55:52 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp303.mail.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 21 Feb 2010 16:55:52 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 565027.7827.bm@omp303.mail.re3.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 18732 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Feb 2010 16:55:52 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rogers.com; s=s1024; t=1266771352; bh=EAwgA7JKGh48lzW8mmm69nmR9HoCrzenbC5qlyTczLY=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ifOK/RBqbgygSR41GPWVI28eDWQuIAFoQh45JaskQRUQarSUry/2IAqcyf2XSncOSYnQFCopFXGQMQGAM0/c1nnNL1OHpcLBBGjy7MlERoUKsOiR05F0of7GQ187kREHAGsDcepSlDoH+2SZ3b++ZXs4RcUpYH/7mHBk0qn5Oak= DomainKey-Signature:a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=gUkQLDh33hSzRWT5WBbstXZar24CurAz0nBWeKUMa75mPn49xySwUL/YkzZuw8YeKx4/hVBYkjjhPY34L3UcYoXxMMaXROLL2vRBsPHQ7vGp0g4V+kKr+yIcWRqtZ/08h5UX+ONYrSKLoRwkH/tC9SqrBBPUW4MB1FFIK0NE/Ug=; Message-ID: <450935.18684.qm@web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: s.TUkiwVM1mBCXVlscE5tSdbxQ7XDwy7rHRpQLECu_ZC9kTLf8wnIp_wrb1jU_h0lkSXLUfR0Pqm5IMkvUMBVwWME6TSCQxumZNv9gezCQbT61OnbGWwfH0w.Y3K1nSRKo6L7yZ5G0V5_wZxyXDVCavldTbuzZcpbxBKSKLEUCNy_9ah8IPmw7jBGzn00JERSCuDCrKCPT88MT0IbKOWjn9.o4y718304.rjOJ7F9zUBrEW0PC6Lv9WRIFH1WGxWeS1WkFoRoysQb01HpnA3aLeJEA_p6mqhOKKQOtnaRWzX6JGMciZGq.5.ugOLONM- Received: from [99.229.170.85] by web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:55:52 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/300.3 YahooMailWebService/0.8.100.260964 References: <20100221092419.GB31805@digitalkingdom.org> <925d17561002210820x4d696c26v5ec7699e4bb6c57d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:55:52 -0800 (PST) From: "A. PIEKARSKI" Subject: [lojban] Re: smart.fm and fooling text-to-speech To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <925d17561002210820x4d696c26v5ec7699e4bb6c57d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 16960 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: totus@rogers.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Is > there a Slovenian or Croatian voice? Those are often said to be very good for > Esperanto, which has a phoneme inventory much like that of Lojban. (Although > looking at their Wikipedia articles, it seems they lack [h] too.) mu'o > mi'e xorxes Donato was exploring the use of Polish and Czech voices.  The only real problem with Polish, as far as I remember, was the lack of a Polish equivalent of {'}.  If you want to hear, paste the text below into http://www.ivona.com/ There are two Polish voices there, so try them both. The following text is from the xorxes translation of Metamorphosis. Donato has some code for converting the lojban text into text the reader will recognize as Polish. totus   lo nu bincho. fi-e, la franz kafkas. sei la chorches szu fanva. ni-o pa mo-o. ni-o. la gregor samsas, sza lo szerni ba lo nu raktu senva, szu szo a szikna gi-e faszki, lo du-u-gy-, bu-u lo szkana, szu ba-o bincho lo rigni szinki! To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.