These various things are what we always referred to as glue. I must speech person not a programmer, but this stuff is all quite easily doable by somebody that knows I/O programming.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Corine Bickley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu">corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">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><font color="#888888">corine bickley<br></font>
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<div class="h5"><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>
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