On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 19:24 +0100, Goundy wrote: > Hello all. Hi,
Can you not use an alias in your emails? It makes it difficult to attach your postings to our GSoC application. Thanks. > This is my proposal for the Page reader GSoC idea. > I've done a little search to try getting something portable and > powerful, I found some interesting TTS engines like: > speech dispatcher (http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd): provides a > powerful device independant C Api to write TTS applications. > Gnome-speech library: This could be the best choice but the only problem > is that it may be not portable. > There's some other engines, and the choice need a study and some > feedbacks from the netsurf team The way I thought this should be done is to abstract speech synthesis APIs ourselves, in much the same way we abstract the plotting. ie, make the core call certain calls that the front end must implement for doing speech. This enables lightweight use of a systems's local or built-in speech without bringing in any dependencies. (So, under Windows it would call SAPI, under RISC OS it would call eSpeak, and under Linux perhaps it could call libfestival?) B.
