Re: [orca-list] Raspberry Pi breakthrough

[Fernando Botelho <Fernando Botelho F123 org>]

This is wonderful! Well done Mike!!!

One more low cost option for the blind!

Fernando



On 11/18/2014 07:35 PM, Mike Ray wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Forgive me for crowing about this on here but I've made a breakthrough
> today of which I am very proud.
>
> For months I have been working on code to solve the stuttering espeak
> tts on the Raspberry Pi in the console.
>
> This is caused by the Broadcom sound driver not working well with espeak
> tts and the kernel regularly crashes.
>
> I have written a library in C which renders the audio on the GPU, and
> which works solidly and responsively with a small footprint.
>
> I am about to release details of the git repo I have the code in, along
> with instructions on how to get it working with Raspbian and Arch.  And
> then some pre-configured SD card images for download on our Raspberry VI
> web site.
>
> I am now working on an Emacspeak server to use the same audio code and
> then will write a speech-dispatcher module to make it possible to use
> Orca with the GPU and this should make it possible to run a minimal GUI
> on the little beast.
>
> Mike