Hi all,
I know eSpeak has a Mac OSX port. However, what I want to know is
whether there is a way to integrate that port with VoiceOver. I know
that eSpeak can be run through the command line because of OSX being
based on Unix. However, since the language I want (Farsi/Persian) is
only supported by eSpeak, and I don't want to constantly paste stuff
into the terminal to have them read out to me, I would need to use
VoiceOver + eSpeak.
This is what I wonder is possible or not. :-)
Thanks.
On 8/25/2013 10:56 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
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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