Re: [orca-list] GNOME-speech driver

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

The fact that the voice is showing up in test-speech is good.  It means  
that Orca can use the voice.

For the problem with not being able to speak regular text, I'm not sure  
what is happening.  It may be that the telugu_NSK_diphone voice can  
only speak numbers due to a pronunciation lexicon limitation or  
something.  I did a Google search for telugu_NSK_diphone and came  
across this link:

http://festival-te.sourceforge.net/wiki/Speech_Assistance

On that page is an example:

festival> (voice_telugu_NSK_diphone )
telugu_NSK_diphone
festival> (SayText "123")

Try using (SayText "something besides numbers here") and see if it  
speaks the text (you may want to use a telugu string).  If it doesn't  
speak, there's a limitation in the voice and you'd need to work with  
the authors of the voice to complete it.

Have you tried eSpeak?

Will

On May 28, 2008, at 6:30 AM, Prasanna wrote:

> I followed the following link
> http://osdir.com/ml/linux.ubuntu.devel.accessibility/2007-01/ 
> msg00037.html
>
>  and i built gnome-speech-driver , this is the final output i am  
> getting
>
> root boss[gnome-speech]#test-speech
> 1: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.3
>
> Select a server: 1
> Attempting to activate  
> OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.3.
>  Driver name: Festival GNOME Speech Driver
> Driver version: 0.3
> Synthesizer name: Festival Speech Synthesis System
> Synthesizer Version: 1.4.3
>
> Enter desired gender ('m' or 'f'): f
>
> Enter desired locale, or 'all' to display all voices: all
>  1. telugu_NSK_diphone (language telugu)
> 2. hindi_NSK_diphone (language hindi)
> 3. kal_diphone (language english)
>
> Select voice: 1
>
> Please select a "test".
>
> 1. Parameter test.
> 2. Callback test.
>  3. Speech Interrupt test.
> 4. Wait test.
> 5. UTF-8 test.
> 0. Exit.
>
>
>  If i select the voice it is reading only the numbers  in hindi and  
> telugu. It is not reading text contents . How to make this to read  
> desktop contents like application name , icons name etc ...
>
>
> Please tell me how to do this ?
>
> --
> Kind regards
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