Re: [orca-list] For info: GNU/Linux has a still better speech synthetiser

["Jeanette C." <julien mail upb de>]

Hi there,
with my liomited French I gained that:
There is a Portuguese voice under development (nothing about Brzilian 
however).

It is mentioned that Voxygen offers services for accessibility, but I couldn't 
really see it. They have a TTS server, which can do realtime text-to-speech, 
but it sounds more like a product for companies, an annual fee might be 
required for maintainance and support.

I have seen no prices, only an invitation to contact them for further info at:
contact voxygen fr

The TTS system supports SSML version 1.0 and 1.1 and PLS (whatever that is). 
There are also some other standards mentioned, but nothing that I could see 
that is directly related to communication with accessibility APIs or servers 
such as speechdispatcher. I don't know anything about the underlying protocols 
and standards of that though.

Not much, but possibly somet;hing for a start.

Best wishes,

Jeanette

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