Re: [orca-list] external synthesizer (was code review)

[Travis Siegel <tsiegel softcon com>]

> > I'm not really a python fan, mostly because of it's indentation  
> > needs, and
> > screen readers make this task complicated.
> > But, I was wondering if anyone here knows how much trouble it would  
> > be to
> > make orca support new synths.  I built my own external synth, and  
> > would like
> > to use it instead of the built-in horribly inadequate voices  
> > provided with
> > the default orca release.  This would do two things for me.  First,  
> > it'd
> > give me dectalk speech, and second, it would free up memory used by  
> > the
> > software synth, leaving more memory for other apps.  This is  
> > especially
> > useful for those machines with low memory already, since software  
> > speech
> > tends to eat both cpu and memory in large amounts.  Offloading the  
> > speech to
> > an external synth would solve this nicely.  It's usb, and is built  
> > from
> > parts available from http://parallax.com, it cost around $100 or so  
> > to build
> > it depending on how fancy/complicated you want the final product to  
> > be.  I'd
> > thought about incorporating it into speakup as well, but I've not  
> > dug into
> > what that would take just yet.  So, if anyone has any suggestions  
> > on where
> > to look, or how to proceed with this project, I'd sure appreciate it.
>
>
>
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