A functional linux Say is on the way?

[radsurfer2]

I would of thought that Fonix would be interested in letting those of us who have
invested our precious $50.00 in the linux 4.64, that an improved, practical
version of the say application is being worked on...

For some reason what is now being packaged seems to be crippled in many
ways: buffer overruns, deliberately terminates after 43 minutes (making it useless), and no means to do even the simplist software source compiling just
for fun and personal use.

I have already suggested two vitally useful new features:

-ti User-specified time in minutes to read, or if not given, read to END of file.
-ec Echo text to the screen as it is read; very important to many users.

FIX: the "buffer overrun" or whatever causes serious glitches about every
3 minutes.

I do not know about the Win32 version, but the linux version should have
someone out there interested in working on improvements. You honestly
can not expect people to promote this in its current form.

Perhaps 4.64 is intended to work with other "high-end" applications; but as
stated before, many people just want to sample Text-to-speech, and will
be disappointed at this unless some effort is made to clean up Say.

And I'd love to be there to try out any new version thats being considered!

Comments can also be sent to me: [e-mail]

I also have working a Dectalk PC2 card in CentOS 5, this is the ISA version
of the Dectalk card, and as if thats not impressive enough, all you "modern"
highend PC users can look here for using ISA cards:
www.arstech.com/item--usb2isa.html

Imagine that! Dectalk ISA on a 3 GHz PC !! Win98SE, or Linux, as well :-)

//Rich//