at the moment im managing 11 clients for a guru business owner who i wish he would adopt me
, one of them is a small japanese company called yamaha-motor.com.au and N.Z & some of the APAC region.
Not only webdev but video edits, 3d renders of motorbikes etc..flash modules asp / php etc.
I have to take care of 4 g5s and a few pcs including a slew of lappies, and that god it frustrates me MS excahnge server.
Im learning asp/vbscript on the job, seems straight forward.
btw the say command can port to an aiff file with the -o command, just type " man say ", it will show you how to do it.
SAY(1) Speech Synthesis Manager SAY(1)
NAME
say - Convert text to audible speech
SYNOPSIS
say [-v voice] [-o out.aiff] [-f file | string ...]
DESCRIPTION
This tool uses the Speech Synthesis manager to convert input text to
audible speech and either play it through the sound output device cho-
sen in System Preferences or save it to an AIFF file.
OPTIONS
string
Specify the text to speak on the command line. This can consist of
multiple arguments, which are considered to be separated by spaces.
-f file
Specify a file to be spoken. If file is - or neither this parameter
nor a message is specified, read from standard input.
-v voice
Specify the voice to be used. Default is the voice selected in Sys-
tem Preferences.
-o out.aiff
Specify an AIFF file to be written.
If the input is a TTY, text is spoken line by line, and the output
file, if specified, will only contain audio for the last line of the
input. Otherwise, text is spoken all at once.
ERRORS
say returns 0 if the text was spoken successfully, otherwise non-zero.
Diagnostic messages will be printed to standard error.
1.0 2003-05-23 SAY(1)
if you have a mac friend you could pump out a lot of aiff files from about 20 voices and make speech within your game using files, not dynamic, knowing it will work on all windows systems without a speech check.
audacity is a freeware program for win linux mac which will allow you to convert them until the cows come home as well as on par editing of sound with regards to simple trims etc.. it also reads in and out mp3s if you get the plugin.
It can be used in cron jobs.
I have my mac say stuff like "todays files are backed up to the server dave"
if it fails i take the 2001 HAL approach "sorry dave i cant do that"
On a funny note the new A8n-SLI deluxe monster i have on my desk at work has a bios feature to speak whats wrong when it starts up through the bios. the bios has wav files in its rom or somewhere on the board. it gets annoying fast but it was fun the first few times.
I will buy a new pc for home and have a few months off to work on DT again, this is why its suffered so much, too busy, have to finish off the apartment payments. $200k.
the only thing that really sux is cranky ignorant gamers
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