Hi all,
I've been working with Gilles Casse of Oralux on a spec for better
multilingual speech support in Ubuntu, and as it happens, the crux comes
down to support for eSpeak in Orca. Let me explain ...
The aim of the MultilingualSpeechSynthesis spec is to extend our current
provision to
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
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
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
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
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
I have been away from linux/gnome for almost a year now, I think the last
version of gnome I used was 2.6.
When I installed fedora core 6, I discovered that gnopernicus, gnome-speech and
gok are all missing.
What happened to these tools?
Cheers,
Don Raikes, Accessibility Specialist
4848 W.
Hi, Don:
Don Raikes writes:
When I installed fedora core 6, I discovered that gnopernicus, gnome-speech
and gok are all missing.
What happened to these tools?
They're all there, except that Gnopernicus is now replaced by Orca. I
can't know, of course, what selections you made during your
