Hi Joshua, We are looking at doing this, though it depends on writing a gnome-speech driver for espeak (the speech dispatcher solution is still too incomplete).
See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/MultilingualSpeechSynthesis Henrik Joshua Lambert wrote: > Would it be possible to switch from festival to the espeak software synth > on the live cd? Festival and gnome-speech are two performance killers, > and festival is huge. Meanwhile, espeak is small, fast, and very > understandable. There is a speech-dispatcher backend for orca to allow > orca to recognize speech-dispatcher. Seriously, when I use the ubuntu cd > with my 2ghz processor, there is a noticeable delay between the time I > press the arrow keys in a menu and the speech output. On the other hand, > using the orca/speech-dispatcher/espeak combination on my hd installation, > speech is fast and responsive. Btw, festival also yields slow > responsiveness on the hd. > Cheers, > Josh > > > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
