I can't see any reason why ESpeak couldn't be compiled from source to work
with Voiceover, however, I'm not sure about its API hooks, so I really don't
know how that would work. There is, a version of ESpeak for the Mac, yes,
but I'm not totally sure that it can be entegraded with Voiceover. To the
best of my knowledge, it's only the command line utility which you have to
run inside Terminal. Again, this being said, what it all boils down to by
the end of the day is that the underlying hood framework of OSX actually is
Unix. Don't get yourself confused here... I didn't say Linux, I said Unix.
Granted both are very similar, but I say this to save the discussion of, oh,
then, will voxin work? The answer is no. Flat out, no, so don't even ask.
Believe me, I've tried and after about 8 hours of trying to compile
libraries etc. I finally just said, to hell with it. I got it working
enough to where it kind of sort of talked within a command line, but even
that was really inconsistent, let alone getting it to work with Voiceover,
which I never succeeded at. Anyway, not to stray from the initial topic of
this message, yeah... I think with the fact being that ESpeak runs on a
Linux/Unix platform, it probably could be fairly easally ported, but I'm not
sure how it would be accomplished.
Sorry I couldn't be any more help, but that's the brutal answer of truth.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Parham Doustdar" <[email protected]>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 11:57 AM
Subject: Using eSpeak On Mac OSX
Hi all,
I'm new to this list and a (hopefully) future Mac user. The biggest issue
for me is using eSpeak with VoiceOver. Is such a thing possible?
Thanks!
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