Re: [orca-list] Language Changes

[jon orcauser <j orcauser googlemail com>]

Dear Tom,

It would be great if you could post instructions or a step by step
guide on how to reproduce your setup. It sounds like a really great
project, so please keep working at it. Alternatively create a page
under the orca wiki, to keep us informed of the things that you are
learning.

Does your project make it possible to use sapi4 voices?
Sadly some companies only release old sapi4 voices, because they are
"the only provider" for that language and have less drive to keep up
with the technology.

Thanks again for working on this!

-Jon

On 3/3/09, Thomas Lloyd <thomaslloyd yahoo com> wrote:
> Dear Damian
>
>
> The project that i am working on is in its infancy, at the moment
> unreleased, but what it does is implement the Microsoft speech engine
> from Windows in Linux. It would be a possibility to use a text editor
> with basic modifications where it would read a document in any language
> specified by you. This would be without the support of Orca. Then each
> text editor could read in a specified language its content.
>
> This would be a custom tool designed for what your doing but it is
> possible. It very much depends on how complicated you want the
> application. Something that will read a sentence one a time to you from
> a text only document would be relatively simple.
>
> Just so you know it can be done but is not yet implemented in my
> project. The potential is there.
>
> Just thinking on this point there is an application that will read like
> this under wine already called TextAloud. It is limited by not being
> that interactive when reading it just reads a document with a specified
> speech engine and language. It can produce an MP3 that might be easier
> to work with if you have multimedia keys to pause play rewind or even
> and mp3 player. I have not idea how accessible this is if at all? I am
> not sure you are using this system because of sight loss.
>
> That is probably the low tech solution but in my opinion low tech has
> less problems when you have to get the job done.
>
> Also with my project a smaller amount of work can see me produce a text
> to mp3 player app that can be used from the command line. The only real
> problems is sourcing the TTS engines in SAPI 5 format in your
> languages.
>
> Regards
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
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