Hello, thank you for responding anyways, I think I'll wait a little for more possible answers (Travis?). In the meantime I'll check for Judas Player, that I didn't know about.
Cheers, Cleverson Em 14/1/2012 21:00, Rugxulo escreveu: > Hi, > Sorry for the delay, but I didn't have a really good answer. But I > guess anything is better than nothing. > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Cleverson Casarin Uliana > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> While browsing the list archives, I have found a thread on a version of >> the ESpeak software synthesiser for DOS. The thread is this: >> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=87D17E51-33F5-4D6F-A150-84986F4384DD%40softcon.com&forum_name=freedos-devel > > Yes, I remember it, it wasn't that long ago. > >> From what I have understood, ESpeak for DOS does only generate wave >> audio files from a given text and play them. I wonder whether it would >> be hard to make ESpeak behave like a real synthesiser under DOS, that >> is, to receive a text and speak it directly to an output, which could be >> the PC speaker. This way it could be integrated with some screen reader >> like Provox. > > No idea. Sure, in theory it's possible, but I don't know how. It > probably wouldn't be me upgrading it. Though I can recompile it as-is > if you want to play with it. Also, you may? be able to get latest > Judas Player 2.10c to work with newer sound cards (.WAV), so you may > not need the lousy PC speaker. > >> Unfortunately, I don't know C++ nor Assembly enough to make this work >> myself, so I'm asking this more as an user than as a developer, also >> because I would benefit from it as a blind user. Has anyone tried it >> already? > > I wish I could help, but my skills are mostly poor. And worse is that > I don't understand C++, so that's a wash. The reason I wrote that post > at all in the aforementioned thread was to respond to Travis' > pre-existing efforts (which I'm not involved in). He seems to be the > expert in that area, but apparently he's not responded here yet. > > Sadly, we're just too low on volunteers, as usual, so expect no miracles. > Sorry. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > RSA(R) Conference 2012 > Mar 27 - Feb 2 > Save $400 by Jan. 27 > Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
