Yes there was.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Brandon Misch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmisch2002@gmail.com">bmisch2002@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">i thought there was a dectalk for linux at one time.<br>
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<div class="h5"><br>On Feb 24, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Corine Bickley wrote:<br><br>> Thanks for your question, Tony.<br>> I'll ask our programmer Peter to look into the possibility. Snoopi<br>> Botten, Enable's Chief Communications Officer, will keep you posted on<br>
> our progress.<br>> corine bickley<br>><br>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Tony Baechler <<a href="mailto:tony@baechler.net">tony@baechler.net</a>> wrote:<br>>> Hi all,<br>>><br>>> I know I'm not the only one interested in this. I and someone else are<br>
>> looking for a software DECtalk for Linux. There used to be TTSynth, but<br>>> the site, <a href="http://ttsynth.com/" target="_blank">ttsynth.com</a> is dead. Unfortunately, Linux can't use SAPI<br>>> voices. There is a community of users using Speakup and Gnome Orca<br>
>> which are screen readers for Linux. They don't like the ESpeak voices.<br>>> While I can tolerate ESpeak and I have a serial port, Orca can<br>>> apparently only use software speech unless you use different speech<br>
>> drivers. I would very much like to get a software DECtalk that works<br>>> with both Speakup and Orca.<br>>><br>>> I'm not a programmer and I have no idea what the technical issues<br>>> involved are, but I know that it's completely different than SAPI. I<br>
>> also know it can be done because TTSynth sold for $75 when it was<br>>> available. Apparently, there is software called Speech Dispatcher which<br>>> acts as a speech server and connects the client, like Speakup to the<br>
>> software synthesizer, like Festival or ESpeak. There's a program called<br>>> a connector which gets the speech from the synthesizer to the client or<br>>> something. I'm unfortunately really not that familiar with the<br>
>> details. If any of the developers could either contact me privately or<br>>> join the Speakup list, they could get lots of feedback. The Speakup<br>>> developers would be the ones to ask about the connector and Speech<br>
>> Dispatcher. I would be happy to test a Linux version. I'm running<br>>> Debian testing.<br>>><br>>> You can contact me at <a href="mailto:tony.baechler@gmail.com">tony.baechler@gmail.com</a>. The Speakup list is at<br>
>> <<a href="http://linux-speakup.org/" target="_blank">http://linux-speakup.org/</a>>.<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> DECtalk mailing list<br>>> <a href="mailto:DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com">DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br>
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