[Xastir] OSX sound setting

[F1MHV]

Thank you for answer. I just tested-it on an old OS X 10.5.8 and the newest OS X 10.12.4, and terminal commands looks pretty similar to festival with: say “hello” or say -v (voice name) “hello”…

Unfortunately i am a real linux-dummy…

73 de Cyril - DF1CHB/AM - F1MHV/M



> Le 17 avr. 2017 à 17:09, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> a écrit :
> 
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 07:58:55AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <n7ipb at wetnet.net> flavor, containing:
>> On Sunday, April 16, 2017 2:33:05 PM PDT F1MHV wrote:
>>> Hello Group and Happy Easter,
>>> 
> [...]
>>> 
>>> By the way, OSX is having an embedded text-to-speech, does there is a way to
>>> tel Xastir to use ?? Say ?? instead of ?? festival ???
>> 
>> The Xastir source contains a file 'macspeech.c' that adds support for OSX.  
>> Not having a Mac I don't know if it's compiled automatically,  but it is 
>> there.
>> 
>> Perhaps one of the regular Mac users can speak up.
> 
> The code is there, but it is not compiled in --- there is nothing in autoconf
> that detects it, and macspeech.c appears nowhere in any makefile.
> 
> That code was added in 2004, and in the commit it states that the author
> intended to add "autoconf gunk", but never got around to it.  There have been
> no changes in the code base related to that code since 2005 other than
> copyright notice updates.  As it stands, it's basically dead code that has 
> never really been wired into Xastir, and may be broken.
> 
> If someone has interest in making it all work, they'd have to add the 
> appropriate autoconf checks to get it built in.  
> 
> -- 
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