Brilliant Will, I've just leant a whole lot, thanks What is the main API for speech? Something like speak( sText ) ?
Steve On 07/03/2008, Willie Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK - well....let's see. I'll fill in what I know, but I need the Speech > Dispatcher folks to fill in what they know. > > GNOME Speech: > > Just a thin wrapper over a TTS engine. > > Doesn't do audio management - leaves that to the TTS engine. > > Drivers for Festival, FreeTTS, DECtalk, IBMTTS/ViaVoice, > Loquendo, eSpeak, Cesptral/Swift, Eloquence, and even a > wrapper for SpeechDispatcher. No support for DECtalk > Express. > > At a minimum, callbacks supported at the utterance level, > where an utterance is the chunk of text tossed at it via > a single speak command. Callbacks are also supported at > the word progress level if the engine supports it. > > Mostly just sends text off to the speech synthesis engine > for speaking. The only 'extra' stuff that's really done > is adding index marks to text strings to be notified of > speech progress at the word level for those TTS engines > that support it. > > No real support for SSML. > > Audio is controlled by the speech synthesis engine. > > Bonobo/CORBA based, essentially locking it to GNOME > for all intents and purposes. > > Speech services are discoverable and activatable as > system services (via Bonobo Activation). > > Those skilled in the art and with knowledge of the TTS > engine's API can write a driver in a day. It's much more > difficult for those not skilled in the art. ;-) > > Difficult to debug. > > Will > > > David Bolter wrote: > > Will, > > > > That sounds very reasonable to me. Can you start it? :) > > > > cheers, > > D > > Willie Walker wrote: > >> Hi All: > >> > >> This speech issue is obviously one filled with passion and high > >> expectations. I think our ultimate end goal here is to find a > >> solution that works well and fits within the various constraints. > >> > >> The two solutions we've been talking about, gnome-speech and Speech > >> Dispatcher, both have their strengths and weaknesses, and I'm not sure > >> we all understand what they are. Nor do I think we all understand > >> what "works well" means and what the constraints are. > >> > >> As an exercise, what do you all think of us having a somewhat > >> impassioned and pragmatic discussion about the various features and > >> the current state of gnome-speech and Speech Dispatcher? > >> > >> Will > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology www.fullmeasure.co.uk _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
