[DECtalk] DECtalk for Linux

ebruckert Bruckert edbruckert at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 17:41:34 EST 2011


Since I was never a Linux user myself, and NA have to try to scrape the rust
my brain and break through the cobwebs.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Brandon Misch <bmisch2002 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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