correct - but we had to get off viavoice because it is no longer available on linux. the engine viavoice uses is eloquence and was written in the 70s. it is great because it allows in-line markups in the text to control parsody. cutrrently speechworks owns the rights to the eloquence engine.
daisy is a hack organization for microsoft developers.
festival is hard as hell to use.
ibm withdrew viavoice from emacspeak.
that leaves everything available in the $1K and up price range.
but we have created bootable book readers that you can download, copy and pass along for free.
and we create 10-30 audio books a month for free.
and we absorb all the costs of the broadcasts.
i have been with the gutenberg project for about five years, and am the audio team leader.
recently ibilbo offered me the position of audio archivist, which i accepted.
to date, i have contributed 5+ man years to gutenberg, schoolforge and several different linux based projects. - as well as 10s of thousands of dollars and loads of equipment.
keep an eye on us - by the summer we should have hundreds of free books available, and a reconfigurable book reader that boots from cd. in other words, pick the books you want to go on the cd.
and the broadcast is going to be around for the duration.
once the slashdot onslaught is over, we'll have zipped books for download too.
push away from the table and try to install emacspeak tubby. it doesn't work anymore...
you better head back to the local community college and get some more remediation.
exactly how do you know human readers are easy to come by - are you stepping up to plate.
the only value in wearing your ass for a hat is it'll keep you from catching cold, but it won't do much for your breath:-)
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it's the eloquence engine with a custom front end to mark-up the text for inflection and other parsody factors. the front end went thru 37 releases over a year of testing. we are working with a speech therapist and hope to achieve an "ideal" result by end of summer.
there are 22 books available this way currently.
another 50+ are being reviewed. the version at http://www.etc-edu.com is a newer edition of the audio software. but, by all means, go to gutenberg.
we will never use xml for anything. we have already done more for the blind than daisy. nice plug for daisy though. keep up the good work. maybe you can voulenteer 40 hours a week or so to make daisy compliant books. you sound like a real public service maven, a regular saint.
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i'm just telling you what i put on the cd. it is only filled to 487 meg or so.
the time machine took me 42 minutes to produce.
do the math.
correct - but we had to get off viavoice because it is no longer available on linux. the engine viavoice uses is eloquence and was written in the 70s. it is great because it allows in-line markups in the text to control parsody. cutrrently speechworks owns the rights to the eloquence engine.
the cd contains a complete linux distribution so it can boot from the cd, the TTS software and 138 books.
it is not copy protected.
it is copyrighted to prevent resale.
it has NO mp3s at all.
ok, i want you to read a book from the gutenberg collection and send it to me. e-mail me at meschman@etc-edu.com
yea, i bet you are a real book worm. what are the last three books you read, and in what decade.
daisy is a hack organization for microsoft developers. festival is hard as hell to use. ibm withdrew viavoice from emacspeak. that leaves everything available in the $1K and up price range. but we have created bootable book readers that you can download, copy and pass along for free. and we create 10-30 audio books a month for free. and we absorb all the costs of the broadcasts. i have been with the gutenberg project for about five years, and am the audio team leader. recently ibilbo offered me the position of audio archivist, which i accepted. to date, i have contributed 5+ man years to gutenberg, schoolforge and several different linux based projects. - as well as 10s of thousands of dollars and loads of equipment. keep an eye on us - by the summer we should have hundreds of free books available, and a reconfigurable book reader that boots from cd. in other words, pick the books you want to go on the cd. and the broadcast is going to be around for the duration. once the slashdot onslaught is over, we'll have zipped books for download too.
push away from the table and try to install emacspeak tubby. it doesn't work anymore ...
you better head back to the local community college and get some more remediation.
if tubbo can get emacspeak running on his computer and really prove it, i will send him $50.
hey tubby, anyone ask you for a check. i checked out your site - obviously a mastibator, do your kids know?
you haven't listened to even a single chapter and are completely unaware of the issues of the blind, but enjoy the sound of your voice.
exactly how do you know human readers are easy to come by - are you stepping up to plate. the only value in wearing your ass for a hat is it'll keep you from catching cold, but it won't do much for your breath :-)
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it's the eloquence engine with a custom front end to mark-up the text for inflection and other parsody factors. the front end went thru 37 releases over a year of testing. we are working with a speech therapist and hope to achieve an "ideal" result by end of summer.
there are 22 books available this way currently. another 50+ are being reviewed. the version at http://www.etc-edu.com is a newer edition of the audio software. but, by all means, go to gutenberg.
we will never use xml for anything. we have already done more for the blind than daisy. nice plug for daisy though. keep up the good work. maybe you can voulenteer 40 hours a week or so to make daisy compliant books. you sound like a real public service maven, a regular saint.
the books are available for download.
absloutely incorrect. we are using the eloquence engine, and a set of custom software to markup the text for inflection, etc ...