Linked by Rayiner Hashem & Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 24th Nov 2003 16:24 UTC
Today we are very happy to publish a very interesting Q&A with major freedesktop.org members: the founder Havoc Pennington (also of Debian, Gnome and Red Hat fame), Waldo Bastian (of SuSE & KDE fame), Keith Packard and Jim Gettys (of X/XFree86/fontconfig/w3c fame) and David Zeuthen, a new member who's taking over the ambitious HAL project. In the article, we discuss about general freedesktop.org goals, status and issues, the role of KDE/Qt in the road to interoperability with Gnome/GTK+, HAL (with new screenshots), the new X Server aiming to replace XFree86 and we even have an exclusive preliminary screenshot of a version of Mac OS X's Exposé window management feature for this new X Server! This is one article not to be missed if you are into Unix/Linux desktop!
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Sorry, there is nothing like text2speech (my invention)
festival can do more than my example, not only read the file from a texte, for example :
festival>help
[...]
Doing stuff
(SayText TEXT) Synthesize text, text should be surrounded by double quotes
(tts FILENAME nil) Say contexts of file, FILENAME should be surrounded by double quotes
(voice_rab_diphone) Select voice (Britsh Male)
(voice_ked_diphone) Select voice (American Male)
festival> (SayText "Great interview from OSNews"
festival>
I can't comment how it is embedded in Gnome, KDE or wether it is present on Fedora (I use none of them)
I just presented the basic tool which does the work.