Re: [orca-list] A software implementing text-to-speech

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
I'm no python expert, but can you develop a program in python 2.x and 
have orca be able to see and use it? I remember python 3.x being 
deliberately backward incompatible to 2.x, so I'm not sure if this is 
possible. Again, I'm no expert. If the only hurtle is python 3.x, then 
I'm assuming you mean that nvda, being the only used open source screen 
reader under windows, having to use python 2.x. I forget why, but I seem 
to remember it being that one of the components they use not having a 
python 3 version. THis should be fixed, but it's out of jamie and mic's 
hands, so I'm not sure when this will happen. Orca can speak text 
directly using ... what did joanie call it, at-spi notifications? Joanie 
will have to tell you how this is done, I can't remember. But 
speech-dispatcher should be simple. There are python speech-dispatcher 
bindings you can use.
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 12/23/2015 09:12 AM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> Orca do not talk directly to the synth, it talks to speech-dispatcher 
> and speech-dispatcher talks to the synthh.
>
> Probably the library used in windows could be adapted to talk to 
> speech-dispatcher?
> On 12/22/2015 06:30 PM, Vincent LE GOFF wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I would like to develop a software that implements TTS 
> > (text-to-speech).  I would like this software to be cross-platform. 
> > It already implements TTS under Windows through a library.  What 
> > should I do to have the same support under Linux with Orca?
> >
> > I guess Orca is the only available graphical screen reader, but I may 
> > be wrong about that.  I would need to have support for both spoken 
> > text (that is, I would need to send to the screen reader some text to 
> > be spoken) and sent to the Braille display when supported. I will use 
> > Python itself (not the same version as used by Orca, however, since 
> > I'll have to develop using 2.X).
> >
> > Thank you for your answer,
> >
> > Vincent
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