From: kevin@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Kevin Sanders) Subject: Re: How about /dev/speak? Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 21:27:27 GMT
In article <1993Apr7.003536.20599@a.cs.okstate.edu> kennejs@a.cs.okstate.edu (KENNEDY JAMES SCOT) writes:
>
>BTW, how about making a speak device like the Amiga has for linux?
>You could call it /dev/speak. To use it all you'd have to do is
>cat out a file, redirect the output to the speak device, and then
>the words in the file would be spoken. You could amaze your friends
>by having your PC say something on bootup like: "Linux. The choice
>of a Gnu generation." :) :) I can't wait till the T-shirts start
>coming out!
>
>
>---Scott
>
Since there's already a /dev/audio device for handling sound cards, this
sounds like it should be an application program, not another driver. All
you'd need would be a set of digitized phonemes and a program to translate
a language into a sequence of phonemes. Of course the speech would not
be as good as pure digitized speech.
Personally I like attaching various canned sounds to different system events
(egg timer for compiles finishing, etc.)
-- Kevin Sanders, KN6FQ NCR Torrey Pines kevin.sanders@torreypinesca.ncr.com (619) 597-3602 kevin%beacons@cyber.net