On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:54 +0100, Bruno Gonzalez wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:22:10 +0100, Michael Whapples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > If you mean by TTS systems the actual TTS engine, brltty isn't that. As > > far as things go with actual TTS engines, I would say espeak > > Ok, thanks for clearing that up. I'm no expert in TTS or screen readers > terminology :-) > > I've reviewed about 15 software packages. Out of those, only 2 have passed > my list of requirements (open sourceness, supported languages, etc.): they > are espeak and festival, which you guys seem to consider good candidates > too. BRLTTY was the last one in my review list. > > My intention is to feed the library with plain text. The task of figuring > out what text to provide would be on my side. > > From what i read, it looks like BRLTTY is a screen reader... but does it > include a syntethizer that i may be able to use directly? Or do you think > i'd better go for espeak/festival instead? > I would say espeak or festival (personally I would say espeak, but others may > disagree). I don't think there is any way to send text to the speech part of > brltty, I think the API only relates to the braille part, and if it was > braille support you want to add then brltty might be a good candidate. > Thanks for all the useful replies! >
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