Re: [g-a-devel]Gnopernkicus with external speech synthesizers

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Scott:

There was/is already at least one hardware synth driver written for 
gnome-speech.
I think Marc can tell you more.  I do not know whether the driver still 
works or not,
but there should be code for you to start from.  Note that it may not be 
feasible for an external
synth can provide information on whether it has finished speaking a 
queued request
or not, so implementing the 'Callback' API may be tough.  Gnopernicus 
can in theory
work with speech drivers that don't implement 'Callback' (for instance 
Festival), but
results are not as good as for drivers which provide the Callback feature.

Depending on the serial API and whether the synth blocks while speaking 
a request,
you might be able to approximate Callback on a per-utterance basis (i.e. 
a rather
coarse granularity).

regards

Bill

Scott Berry wrote:

> We have quite a thread on the speakup list going on about making Gnome
> work with external speech synthesizers.  First of all, are any of you
> developers looking at including external speech support?  Secondly, if not
> if I could get some hand holding I could at least come up with a
> Doubletalk Lt speech driver.  I do program but have never programmed a
> driver.  I think that this area needs some serious concentration before
> continuing with making keyboard changes and possibly even before doing
> more work on making Gnopernicus read.  The reason I say this is that way
> implementation of the synths could be put in and then if there are special
> parameters for the external synths then that could be included in the
> appropriate modules which must be loaded for Gnopernicus to work.  All
> feedback is welcome.
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