[DECtalk] DECtalk for Linux

Brandon Misch bmisch2002 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 11:37:38 EST 2011


that's good what ever happened to it? 

On Feb 24, 2011, at 10:56 AM, ebruckert Bruckert wrote:

> Yes there was.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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