Re: Linux accessibility for artic

["T. V. Raman" <raman@Adobe.COM>]

Ken Perry writes:
 > 
 > out there are the braille terminal and emacs speak.  I hear a few people
 > are trying to make emacs speak work for some of the more affordable
 > synthisisers but  I have looked through that code and since the writer of
 > Emacs speak has made it for Dec talk using the voices it is not as easy a
 > task as would be hoped.  If you happen to find something out there that I

The above statement --"the author of emacspeak has made it dectalk voices
  specific" is grossly untrue
Emacspeak does provide aural syntax coloring using Dectalk voices if you
  happen to have a dectalk, but this is a user toggle that can be turned on
  and off. 

And though the author of the note I am following up to chooses to say "I have
looked through that code ..."
I bet you that anyone who is motivated enough to develop a driver for other
synthesizers would be able to develop a voice locking module for other speech
boxes if he/she so chooses.


In the free software world, things never happen if one just chooses to ask for
things; one has to be prepared to give as well.



 > have missed though please let me know cause like you there is no way I am
 > going to buy a dec talk at that price.
 > 
 > Ken /whistler
 > 
 > On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Ben Van Poppel wrote:
 > 
 > > I haven't actually got Linux yet but I thought I'd better start 
 > > researching. I have only found one voice access program for Linux, that 
 > > being Emacspeak. However, I haven't the resources to by a DecTalk 
 > > synthesizer and a terminal system doesn't appeal to me either. Are there 
 > > any voice access systems for Linux that can use Artic, either TransPort 
 > > or Double Talk speech synthesizers?
 > > 
 > > 
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