Re: Espeak -

2021-01-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-05 19:47, Tim via users wrote: I'm curious if you've tried other text-to-speech things on Fedora. There are screen-readers, like Orca. The voice from espeak is very primitive. I'd consider it worse than my 30 year old Amiga's speech synth. * Ten or fifteen ye

Re: Espeak -

2021-01-05 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 19:21 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Can "espeak" convert Thunderbird email messages into sound and if so > how is it done? > I'm curious if you've tried other text-to-speech things on Fedora. There are screen-readers, like Orca. The voice from e

Re: Espeak -

2021-01-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-05 06:19, Ed Greshko wrote: Well, in a terminal I just did echo "That is what I found and at that point I quit for the day" | espeak And it was read to me. * copy/pasted "echo "That is what I found and at that point I quit for the day" | espea

Re: Espeak -

2021-01-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/01/2021 19:06, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2021-01-04 20:16, Ed Greshko wrote: man espeak says espeak [options] [words] The options being taking text from stdin or a file. I could find no T-Bird addons that would integrate. The simplest way would be to copy the text, paste the text

Re: Espeak -

2021-01-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2021-01-04 20:16, Ed Greshko wrote: man espeak says espeak [options] [words] The options being taking text from stdin or a file. I could find no T-Bird addons that would integrate. The simplest way would be to copy the text, paste the text into a file, and feed the file to espeak

Re: Espeak -

2021-01-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/01/2021 08:21, Bob Goodwin wrote: Can "espeak" convert Thunderbird email messages into sound and if so how is it done? man espeak says.... espeak [options] [words] OPTIONS    -ffile  Text file to speak.    --stdin  Read text input from stdin instead of a file

Re: Espeak -

2021-01-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/01/2021 08:21, Bob Goodwin wrote: Can "espeak" convert Thunderbird email messages into sound and if so how is it done? man espeak says.... espeak [options] [words] The options being taking text from stdin or a file. I could find no T-Bird addons that would integrate. Th

Espeak -

2021-01-04 Thread Bob Goodwin
Can "espeak" convert Thunderbird email messages into sound and if so how is it done? -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send a