On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 06:09 -0700, vinodh wrote:
> As i am interested to work on the project , I would like to know
> some information about the Page Reader Service to be built for the
> netsurf browser . Should it be making use of the eSpeak synthesiser
> or should the synthesizer be built from scratch ?
My view is that the student who takes up this project idea should design
and use an abstracted API such that it can be easily retargetted to
other speech systems. For example, under Windows, you'd want to make
use of SAPI. Under UNIX, you might want to use speechd. Under Mac OS
X, you might want to use the Apple stuff.
I think the creation of a new synthesiser is way out of the scope of the
project.
> One more general help - I am a newbie regarding IRCs. i am
> trying to use xChat client to connect to freenode network .. But it is
> taking long time to connect to the network .. it keeps giving the
> message - Connecting to chat.freenode.net (154.35.200.44) port
> 6667... - for a long time & the dialog box for selecting the channel
> #netsurf does not seem to appear at all. Thats why i had to mail . It
> would be of great help if some directions are provided in resolving
> the same , so that i can discuss directly .
If you're using a UNIX, I recommend irssi as an IRC client. Launch
thus:
irssi -c irc.freenode.net
and then do /join #netsurf once it has connected. If you're still
having difficulty connecting, it may be because Freenode are refusing
your connection. Common reasons are trying to IRC as root (never wise),
or having open web proxies etc. Read the entire text it sends you: it
will have clues.
B.
