Re: [orca-list] Orca: Support for Multilingual text

[Michael Pozhidaev <msp altlinux ru>]

Hi, Bill!

> While this feature doesn't work well for switching between related
> European languages, it works great for Russians who often see English
> and Russian mixed on the same web page.  This feature was desired
> strongly enough in Russia that they even wrote their own back-end
> speech engine: voiceman.  The key feature of voiceman over
> speech-dispatcher/opentts is automatic language switchiting when
> certain character sets are detected.  This works with Orca today.
>
> We'll try and support voiceman in Vinux assuming the author can help
> us maintain it.  Longer term, I'd love to see the best features from
> voiceman, the emacspeak speech engine, and opentts/speech-dispatcher
> merged into one back end.

Bill, thanks! Of course, we must do everything to get speech back-end suitable
for everybody and I will do what I can to integrate voiceman
into Vinux (or any other distribution).  For long time there wasn't any
interest to voiceman from outside of Russian community, so I didn't
thought about English information page for voiceman. Only Russian one is
now accessible. 

It is necessary to register voiceman as a project on sf.net and I will send
message here and to Vinux mailing list when this work is done.

GIT contains quite stable version, code is ready to release. I just want to
improve documentation.

http://git.altlinux.org/people/msp/public/voiceman.git

-- 
Michael Pozhidaev. Tomsk, Russia. E-mail: msp altlinux ru
Russian info page: http://www.marigostra.ru/