Hi,
Thank you all. Although the thread is being pushed and pulled in all
directions, my final conclusion is that eSpeak can indeed not be used
with VoiceOver as it currently stands. I'll contact Jonathon and see if
it can be done. What I had hoped to glean through this thread (which was
not achieved) was whether there is an API that VoiceOver uses to create
speech (I.E. something like Microsoft Speech API).
I'll let you know if I figure out anything else.
Thank you.
On 8/26/2013 11:47 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
Orca does use it in Gnome, you're correct, although, there are other
voices that you can use with speech-dispatcher, such as Festival,
Cepstral, Voxin, if you're lucky enough to find all the outdated C
libraries etc, Pico/SVox, and a few others. I think even the Mbrella
voices might work. This is getting off topic so I'll end the thread
here, but I did want to confirm, yes, Sarah, you are correct. Orca
does by default use ESpeak. Speechd-up also can use ESpeak if you want
to get Speakup to work with ESpeak through Speech-Dispatcher. If you
have any questions on how to get that up and running, shoot me off an
e-mail privately, or DM me on Twitter, and I'll see if I can get you
the docs to do it. I think they may be on the Orca Wiki.
Anyway, ok, thread over.
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah k Alawami" <[email protected]>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: Using eSpeak On Mac OSX
One day perhaps. I personally love ESpeak as it is a very responsive
synth and would be on on a mac as the voice quality is not too good,
but not too bad either.I think Orka uses it so, maybe one day.
Tc all.
On Aug 26, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote:
Well, Acapella made their voices avalable for voiceover, so I'm sure
its possible, it'd just have to be made to be integrated with mac
os's tts thing, but there just aren't enough programmers out there
for the blind, and that know about mac and espeak. I'm sure the
developer of espeak would do it but I don't think he has a mac.
Sent from my iPod
On Aug 25, 2013, at 11:35 PM, Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]>
wrote:
Some how I don't think it is. I could be wrong though.
Take care and be blessed.
On Aug 25, 2013, at 9:27 PM, Parham Doustdar <[email protected]>
wrote:
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
i
nconsistent, 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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