newer load_spk-0.8.tar.gz

[Victor Tsaran]

Hey, Jacob!
Did you look through DoubleTalk's manual? I think they discuss some of these
issues there. I wish I could give more details.
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Schmude" <jacobs at ncinter.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: newer load_spk-0.8.tar.gz


> Thanks for the info. I tend to still use /usr/local to indicate
> which software I have installed as opposed to which software was installed
> by packages. It's a personal preference.
> Thanks for the direct command, I didn't know that. Now I can play
> with my doubletalk more. Any way to send an exception dictionary to the
> synth for example, to speak spanish? I don't speak spanish, but it's fun
> to play with it.
>
> On 30 May 2000, Kirk Reiser wrote:
>
> > Hi Jacob:  We changed it to /usr/bin because we tend to use debian
> > which doesn't use the /usr/local tree very much.  /usr/local once had
> > a purpose which was to place things which you were installing on a
> > machine which hosted hundreds or thousands of users, in a place to
> > indicate this was local to this machine only.  We don't need that tree
> > really anymore because most linux boxes are totally local themselves.
> > Why have extra directories you don't need to look through when
> > starting a command.
> >
> > I will look into including the entire voice range for doubletalk if we
> > don't already.  I thought we did.
> >
> > Loadspeak has had direct synth support since about v-0.3.  The command
> > is direct=.  Imagine that!
> >
> >   Kirk
> >
> > --
> >
> > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility
> > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
> > phone: (519) 661-3061
> >
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