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As a side comment: can you tell me which mail program you're using,
so I can show you how to configure it to quote properly?

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 05:52:02AM -0800, A. PIEKARSKI wrote:
> 
> > Note that we could use espeak, which IIRC has a decent Lojban
> > voice, to generate the files.  Or, rather, someone else could; I
> > don't have it set up.
> 
> Robin, are you kidding?  The espeak voices are barely
> recognizable!.  

I've never used it.

> Yes, I know it's free and someone has already done the lojban for
> it, but I just don't think it's good enough. How many lojbanists
> use it on a regular basis?

I don't normally have any use whatsoever for TTS, so...

-Robin

-- 
They say:  "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
And I'm  thinking:  "Does it even occur to you to try for something
other  than  the default  outcome?"  See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz
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