Text To Speech in Read Etexts improved again

2008-06-16 Thread James Simmons
This weekend I made another release of Read Etexts. This one fixes the pause/resume problem. I also introduced a new toolbar for Speech, which is adapted from the toolbar of the Speak activity but is modified to use speech-dispatcher. You can select the language to use and control pitch and

Re: Text To Speech in Read Etexts improved again

2008-06-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:00:58AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: I don't plan on doing much more with this until I can get speech-dispatcher installed and working on my XO. Hemant - how would you describe your progress on packaging speech-dispatcher? I've seen lots of traffic on

Re: Text To Speech in Read Etexts improved again

2008-06-16 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi Michael, The basic package is ready to use, and a few more Q/A issues as described in the bug report need to be resolved. The major Q/A issues to be resolved at the moment are : 1. Conversion of CS language info file to UTF-8 encodings. I am having trouble finding the encoding of the

Re: Text To Speech in Read Etexts improved again

2008-06-16 Thread James Simmons
Hemant, The RPM's and instructions you posted to the Wiki before *almost* worked. Can we assume that you'll do something similar with your debugged RPMs while awaiting sponsorship? Having my activity do TTS on a real XO would make a big difference to my project. Not to mention that I

Re: Text To Speech in Read Etexts improved again

2008-06-16 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi James, Absolutely not a problem at all. I am also working on finding a fix for the problems that developers can have while using speechd api with pyGTK as described here : http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg15868.html I discussed a solution to the problem with tomeu and erikos,