OS X

["Nolan J. Darilek" <nolan thewordnerd info>]

I know I've asked this before, but a casual glance over the past few
months' threads and an archive search hasn't revealed anything.

In the absence of a workable screen reader solution from Apple (for
the time, anyway) I've been pondering trying to get the gnome
accessibility code running under OS X and use Gnopernicus to run a few
GTK2 apps. I currently have a fairly complete Emacspeak speech server
for OS X's TTS. Would it just be a matter of installing X 4.3,
compiling gnome 2.4 and writing a gnome-speech driver? I seem to
recall something that made this a bit more complicated, but I can't
remember or find the reference.

Also, and this is just a thought, has anyone considered writing a
gnome-speech driver to interface with emacspeak speech servers? Seems
like this would only require basic modifications to the current
festival driver, and would offer access to a few hardware synths not
currently supported. It would also let me use my OS X speech server
until a native driver exists. :-P I know that FreeTTS is an option,
but I'm not a huge fan of the festival voices. I tried doing something
like this a few months back, but couldn't get it to work and, as I had
lots of other projects on my plate at the time I gave it up. May try
to take up the torch again, provided there aren't any major issues
involved.