[DECtalk] DECtalk for Linux

[Brandon Misch]

i thought there was a dectalk for linux at one time. 

On Feb 24, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Corine Bickley wrote:

> Thanks for your question, Tony.
> I'll ask our programmer Peter to look into the possibility. Snoopi
> Botten, Enable's Chief Communications Officer, will keep you posted on
> our progress.
> corine bickley
> 
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I know I'm not the only one interested in this.  I and someone else are
>> looking for a software DECtalk for Linux.  There used to be TTSynth, but
>> the site, ttsynth.com is dead.  Unfortunately, Linux can't use SAPI
>> voices.  There is a community of users using Speakup and Gnome Orca
>> which are screen readers for Linux.  They don't like the ESpeak voices.
>> While I can tolerate ESpeak and I have a serial port, Orca can
>> apparently only use software speech unless you use different speech
>> drivers.  I would very much like to get a software DECtalk that works
>> with both Speakup and Orca.
>> 
>> I'm not a programmer and I have no idea what the technical issues
>> involved are, but I know that it's completely different than SAPI.  I
>> also know it can be done because TTSynth sold for $75 when it was
>> available.  Apparently, there is software called Speech Dispatcher which
>> acts as a speech server and connects the client, like Speakup to the
>> software synthesizer, like Festival or ESpeak.  There's a program called
>> a connector which gets the speech from the synthesizer to the client or
>> something.  I'm unfortunately really not that familiar with the
>> details.  If any of the developers could either contact me privately or
>> join the Speakup list, they could get lots of feedback.  The Speakup
>> developers would be the ones to ask about the connector and Speech
>> Dispatcher.  I would be happy to test a Linux version.  I'm running
>> Debian testing.
>> 
>> You can contact me at tony.baechler at gmail.com.  The Speakup list is at
>> <http://linux-speakup.org/>.
>> 
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