Hi Tom, I'm also in the UK and started on in embedded/realtime (many moons ago).
Your work sounds great. I'm wondering if you are thinking of wrapping SD as a SAPI voice or taking the simpler path of providing a facade from SD for the SAPI application inteface? To be honest the later would be great, and for me say() plus some of the basic XML markup would keep me happy for ages (plus a user interface or api for voice settings). To be honest the main advantage I can see for implementing the speech engine interfaces would be to help grow the non existance selection of good free SAPI voices. But I guess a lot more work would be needed to create voices that are cross platform. I also sencond Francesco and Willie for the alternative input vote. FWIIW I have created a couple of projects that might provide ideas in this space. The earlier version of Jambu (jambu.fullmeasure.co.uk) is a OSK type user interface using SVG and a GTK custom widget. To be honest it is really a very raw proof of concept. More recently Maavis (http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/maavis) uses the Mozilla platform to provide very simple OSK UI, primarily for touch (pointer) access, but switch is planned. -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk 2008/10/28 Tomas Cerha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Tom Lloyd wrote: >> Just wanted to say Hi and to get myself known. I have been using Ubuntu for= >> three or so years. I am a 26 year old developer from the UK trained in Emb= >> edded / Realtime systems. As a side project I am intergrating SAPI into Ubu= >> ntu to gives access to the MS speech engines using speech dispatcher. > > Hello Tom, > > This sounds exciting. It might be an interesting option and I'd like to > invite you to discuss this on the Speech Dispatcher mailing list, since > similar ideas have been already touched there. > > Best regards, > > Tomas > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
