The Calligrapher Speakonia Text Version

Sat down upon a comfy chair, The writing tools at hand, The coming journey oh so fair, That few could understand. For patience proves the precious key, Meticulous design, Beyond the pure calligraphy, Each letter on each line. Sometimes upon a scroll or frame, Presented to a friend, Or just the writing of a name, For some award to send. Or matching illustrations done, So delicate so sweet, With discipline despite the fun, Till everything's complete. With swirling letters capitals, Some foreign symbols too, Creating wondrous miracles For everyone to view. The sense of pride, the thankful heart, Perhaps to shed a tear, The time well spent perfecting art, The grin from ear-to-ear. Then teaching others what works well, Observing what they learn, As they fall neath the writing spell, And to it, they return. To match the teacher's skills at last, Their children to impress, Such that they'll never be down cast, Now they found happiness. Denis Martindale, copyright, September 2000 and 13. This is the text version meant for a different setup using the text-to-speech program called Speakonia, using the properties section to adjust the voice, pitch, speed and volume such as robosoft 3, pitch 45, speed 5, volume 60 and text can be saved as a wav file, yet the text is slightly different to the original which uses commas rather than dashes and full stops instead of dot dot dot pauses. Some phrases sound better without some commas and maybe a few words could be split e g they found rather than they've found and happy ness rather than happiness. If the copyboard is set then a highlighted text, then the COPY action will immediately speak that text according to the speech properties such as I suggested. The VLC Lan program works with the wav file based on its file association and that program, or try another sound playback program instead.