Re: [orca-list] The Jupiter console screen reader

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,


I know newfon a bit. Back in the days Aleks Sadovoy has implemented that 
as a NVDA driver with some cooperation with Sergey Shishmintzev. He has 
even included transliteration from ukrainian to russian in that that 
NVDA synth driver coded in python.


I think spd-say is more meant as a testing tool rather as an command 
line interface to synthesizers speech-dispatcher supports.

If you are using newfon via generic speech-dispatcher configuration, 
then the best we can do would be extending espeakup to talk to newfon 
instead of espeak if you would like to use newfon with speakup and jupiter.


Do we have access to the library version of newfon or do we currently 
only have an executable binary?


What do you think?


Greetings


Peter




On 10.05.2016 at 20:56 Max wrote:
> Hi, Peter!
>
> It's not urgent. I just wish that everyone could establish any team, 
> as a speech synthesizer. Ie if someone wants to use any synthesizer, 
> which is connected to the "speech-dispatcher", he could point to as a 
> command "spd-say", and the options you want him. Ie I am talking about 
> the possibility in principle to use any command as a synthesizer. You 
> could experiment with any speech synthesizer, even with "espeak".
> I use "newfon", which is ported from the "MS-DOS" for "linux". This is 
> not a commercial speech synthesizer. The source code of the speech 
> synthesizer is not covered by the developer. On it there are reasons 
> that are not related to business.
> If you are interested in the synthesizer, then I'll tell you about it 
> in greater detail; And also I tell you how to install it. But this 
> synthesizer is designed only for the Russian language. This speech 
> synthesizer does not support the Ukrainian language; However, one of 
> the developers wrote me a script to "perl", which takes the Ukrainian 
> letters and replaces their pronunciation in Russian letters. Thus, I 
> can quite comfortably work with the Ukrainian interface programs, and 
> Ukrainian texts.
> This speech synthesizer has its own peculiarities. So if there was a 
> setting in which it would be possible to specify the command as a 
> synthesizer, it would be ideal.
>
> I apologize for my terrible English :).
>
> Peter Vágner пишет:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > As far as I can understand jupiter can only work with espeakup at 
> > present.
> >
> >
> > However adding support for other command line based synths might be
> > doable if there is a way to keep them running all the time and feed the
> > text to them via standard unix pipe.
> >
> >
> > I am running out of time these days but if you need help sooner or later
> > I'm happy to try working on this with you.
> >
> >
> > Are you using newfon or what synth for russian and ukrainian?
> >
> >
> > Is there a way so I can test that synth here or is it a commercial one?
> >
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dňa 10.05.2016 o 12:58 Max napísal(a):
> > > Hi, All.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to adjust the "Jupiter" to work with any other
> > > synthesizer except "espeak"?
> > > I have a speech synthesizer that supports command line. I connect it
> > > to the "speech-dispatcher" through "sd_generic" module. I would like
> > > to use this synthesizer and the rest of the console screen reader;
> > > However, my impression is that I can use it only with "yasr".
> > > If anyone has time, please clarify the situation.
> > > I ask this also because, for some users, "espeak" is a very bad
> > > choice. For example, Ukrainian-users prefer to just do not work with
> > > this speech synthesizer because he has a very horrible accent, and the
> > > pronunciation is very eerie.
> > >
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