Re: TECH: software for recording your voice

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> I've been looking around yesterday night real hard around real's website
> (which I found as chaotic as the government structure of the European
> Union) and found that they have a realproducer for Linux, too. But it's an
> 11 meg download, and you need another 5 meg dowload to fix the bugs! And I
> still can't play .ra or .rm files that I find on my harddisk with the
> realplayer - can that be done with the recording kit, too?
It works, though. Far more pain than it should be, yes.
I can't remember how I got it to work (without a patch).
Fun for listening to Esperanto "radio stations".
But this is really silly; a better standard a few years
ago was "True Speech"; I guess that has disappeared.
I'd like a midi-style super-compressed (and adjustable ...)
phoneme-based speech-only player. It would be great for rants.
And I could make it sound like Darth Vader! Uh, carry on.