*** La traduction en français se trouve après les 3 astérisques (*) Hello,
Thank you for your suggestions. We have very tiny resources, so I hope that my answers below are not too conservative! * Beep at boot stage: 0.6 alpha relied on syslinux at boot stage. Indeed, no solution was available for the beep. Besides it, at boot time, the drive motor stops during the 30 seconds delay. This kind of audio feedback was helpful for some users. * Sound at the initialization stage: Indeed, Speakup has been designed for getting audio feedback very early using an external voice synthesizer. (http://www.speakup.org) > When emacspeak has done its introductory fanfare, could it output a > message telling you how to make it speak the first screenful of > instructions? The whole displayed document could be said automatically. Concerning the speech rate: it was slower with 0.6 alpha. Yes, we have to propose very early (probably in the audio menu) a configurable speech rate. > emacs-vr-mode, and Dragon is fussy about what sound system it has). Do you envision Dragon Naturally Speaking using Wine? > Long-term ideas: I'm working on some elisp for easier navigation and > editing of source code (at the level of statements etc) and when the > initial version is stable, will look at emacspeak-enabling it. It's > designed for use with reduced keyboard activity, or voice input (I > have RSI). Eventually, I would like to get an emacs system working > with both input and output by voice! This is very interesting. I guess there could be common features with the future Oralux 2.0. > > Is there a guide to creating new voices (for other languages) for > MultiSpeech? I can't find anything by googling. The friend I'm sending > the disk to would ideally want Dutch and Czech as well as several of > the ones already on Oralux. > Generaly speaking, if there is already an available TTS, then it can be possible to add a new language to Multispeech. Most of its sources are in C++. The TTS and the audio player are launched through script shells. Igor B. Poretsky proposes Multispeech, Ru_tts, Enlex and more at: ftp://ftp.rakurs.spb.ru/pub/Goga/projects/ I am not aware of any TTS for Dutch at the moment, sorry. Freebsoft proposes Festival in Czech, Speech Dispatcher, Speechd-el and more: www.freebsoft.org Festival in Czech could lead to Speakup in Czech in the current CD. Freebsoft proposes Speechd-el for a talking Emacs. There is no available bridge between Emacspeak and Speech Dispatcher at the moment. Best wishes, Gilles *** En réponse à John Sturdy. Il travaille sous MS-Windows avec Emacs et Dragon Naturally Speaking. Il souhaite à plus long terme aboutir à un systeme piloté par la voix sous Emacs, proposant un menu nécessitant le moins de saisie possible, il est sujet à des problèmes articulaires. Il proposera le CD Oralux à un ami non-voyant qui préférerait des synthèses vocales en néerlandais et tchèque. Je ne connais pas de synthèse en néerlandais sous GNU/Linux pour le moment. Freebsoft propose une synthèse vocale en tchèque basée sur Festival. Avec Speech Dispatcher, Speakup serait utilisable en tchèque dans le CD. A+ Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org _______________________________________________ Oralux mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux
