[DECtalk] DECtalk for Linux

[ebruckert Bruckert]

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.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Corine Bickley <
corine.bickley at gallaudet.edu> 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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