[macosx-unix] voice synth

[George Georgalis]

There is a lecture in html I'd like to have read to me with the
voice synthesizer in the mac.  How can I get it to do that?

BTW, here is how I get the words to move when I'm too lazy to use
the scroll keys (program expects text on stdin, prints a byte
count at each paragraph and offers a crude way to start from the
middle, you'll have to fix the ^M ctrl characters...)

count=$1
dd bs=1 count=$count 2>/dev/null

while :; do
        count=$((count + 1 ))
        c=$(dd bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null | tr '\n' '^M' )
        case $c in
         ' ') sleep 0.09 ;;
         '^M') sleep 0.7 ; echo ; [ "$c" = "$c2" ] && echo "(($count))" && echo && c='' ;;
            *) sleep 0.05 ;;
        esac
        printf "$c"
        c2=$c
done


adjust delay to suit.

// George



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George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator <IXOYE><