Re: [linux-audio-user] graphics->sound

Cesare wrote:

> Florian Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:42:13 +0000
>> Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi Georg. Does that really work, or are we going into the realms of
>>> sheer fantasy (Twilight zone) . Nigel. aka mekon, farpoint, and many
>>> other sci-fi characters and places.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> well, it works only if you either
>>
>> a] have OSS drivers installed or
>>
>> b] have the ALSA OSS compat. module loaded..
>>
>> Nonetheless, here's an alsa version:
>>
>> cat foo.pdf | aplay
>>
>> ;)
>>
>> Have fun,
>> Flo
>>
>>
>>
> It's annoying that you can't make a joke with linux users. They've
> always an answer to show you that what you're joking about is not that
> ridicolous (rather it is indeed possible).
> But Peter wanted to generate sound from an image.
>
> So my question is: how can he use this software to accomplish this
> task if there's just the paper, and not yet the software?
>
but there IS software: http://www.ipd.uni-karlsruhe.de/~reuter/soundpaint/

sure the joke is funny, and i DID chuckle (a bit), but the cool thing is
that we tend to take the absurd and say, "hmmm.... we could probably do
something with that"!
Received on Thu Oct 13 00:15:04 2005