Hi john, here are the details. list of details. 1. merge keynote multimedia with ESpeak. This will give all blind people a very good sounding and extremely multilingual speech synthesizer. also merge infovox230 old software by telia promotor with espeak to further improve espeak itself. lets make the ultimate formant synthesizer out of espeak! 2. update keysoft for windows95. goals by the end of this project are: a. keysoft wil work on windows7 64bit and linux 64bit and 32bit modern systems. b. keysoft will have a easy to use web browser with firefox driving it. this means we can have webvisum and solona features built right into it. c. keysoft will either link to openoffice or have its own spreadsheet application. d. the orca speakup and yasr screen readers for linux keysoft will be able to put you into a linux shell and run yasr by default. 3. more keynote. a. keynote will be tied to NVDA via a python driver or c++ driver which will make it portable if keynote is and infovox230 merged with espeak then this won't be a big issue. b. keynote or espeak-keynote-infovox230 will work with speech dispatcher and emac-speaks server to provide all linux screen readers good sounding very multilingual speech. Ok now the ultimate goal. anyone wanting to use a computer with a friendly simple interface need only get a live cd which also has a simple installer. keysoft with linux as its operating system and espeak/keynote/infovox230 which are now merged into one great formant synthesizer will either run as a live cd or can be installed. keysoft will also be able to be downloaded as a debian package that means you install it on your favorite linux distribution. by default it will use espeak's keynote voice but you could switch to other voices or voice variants or languages. right now keynote and keysoft only run in a sandbox. inside of vmware. they are only demos and are limited. lets free them from vmware and bring them back maybe rename or merge them with existing software and make them better than before!
Josh Kennedy [email protected] On Sep 8, 2010, at 1:20 PM, John Patrick Houck wrote: > > > Hello Josh, I know a guy who use too work for Humanware. If you will write > up all of the details of what you want and what you are trying too do I will > forward to him. I don't know if he can or would help but it's worth checking > into. > Sincerely, > John > > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Joseph Lee" <[email protected] >> To: "'Josh Kennedy'" <[email protected]>, > <[email protected] >> Date sent: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:52:46 -0700 >> Subject: RE: [Braillenote] humanware ignoring messages > >> Hi, >> As a follow-up, I just sent a message to Blind Programming. > There I asked >> them to write to you directly if they have anything to say about > this >> project. >> Cheers, >> Joseph > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh > Kennedy >> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 9:44 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Braillenote] humanware ignoring messages > >> Hi >> I sent humanware several emails about keynote multimedia about my > podcast >> demonstrating keysoft for windows95 and stuff. humanware is > ignoring my >> messages to them. I just get the automated response and nothing > from a real >> human saying we got your message. maybe they are hoping I will > forget about >> the old windows95 software? they told me in one email, stop > advertising and >> astop asking us about it. well I will continue twittering and > podcasting >> about keysoft and keynote multimedia until I get through to > someone who can >> bring back this excellent speech synthesizer and make keysoft run > on >> windows7 mac and linux once again! > http://jkenn337.podbean.com/feed > >> Josh Kennedy >> [email protected] > > > >> ___ >> Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. >> If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a >> copy to the list as well. > >> To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >> [email protected] >> To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >> http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > >> ___ >> Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. >> If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a >> copy to the list as well. > >> To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >> [email protected] >> To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >> http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
