Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?

2006-12-02 Thread Bill Haneman
Lukas Loehrer wrote: Willie Walker writes (Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?): 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

Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?

2006-12-01 Thread Willem van der Walt
Hi, For a live cd, I think you would not find a smaller synth that is clear enough to be understood the first time around than Espeak. Espeak has indexing, pitch/volume/rate selection and some support for punctuation speaking. One advantage of using speech-dispatcher, is that one can run

Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?

2006-12-01 Thread Bill Haneman
Hi Henrik: Perhaps the most expedient solution would be to write a basic driver layer for eSpeak, initially with gnome-speech wrapper interfaces, with the intention of moving it to Speech Dispatcher later on. The basic APIs are I hope similar enough that only a modest amount of code would

Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?

2006-12-01 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: 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

Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?

2006-12-01 Thread Tomas Cerha
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: * Speech Dispacher support for Orca -- I know there have been issues raised about this before. Some missing features are mentioned here: http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SpeechDispatcher Hello, the major issue now is the missing callback support. This results in missing

Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?

2006-12-01 Thread Rich Burridge
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