Will Walker wrote: > We recently looked at making a gnome-speech driver for eSpeak, but the > main problem is that the eSpeak libraries have no facilities for sending > samples to the audio device. Instead, it relies upon the application to > manage the audio. Having developed a speech synthesis engine in the > past, I understand this decision because it helps keep life simple. > > In my opinion, however, we really need the eSpeak libraries to support > audio directly. If someone were able to get this going, we probably > could get faster response time and see eSpeak viable on more systems > (e.g., gnome-speech, SpeechDispatcher, emacspeak, etc.).
I agree. The eSpeak Speech API should be handling this under the covers. So that it's not lost, and also to act as a starting point for anybody else who is interested in working on this, I've opened: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381322 which is an enhancement request for an eSpeak driver for GNOME Speech. It contains a couple of attachments: * Patch to add in the basic GNOME Speech infrastructure for the eSpeak driver. * Sample program from the eSpeak author to show how to turn text to a speech .wav file. _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
