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From: Mark Newbold <manx@sover.net>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: another idea for speech
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 10:48:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32C692DC.244C@sover.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961228231947.388B-100000@kjahds.com>

Kenneth Albanowski wrote:

> Are there any solutions, are they free, and are they usable? More to the
> point, do you _need_ the functions that Synthavoice could provide, and
> would Linux be a good platform to work under? If so, $500 doesn't seem
> impossible.

Check out the Emacspeak program written by blind programmer/mathematician T V 
Raman.  It is free and very powerful.  Raman's home page is:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/raman/raman.html

The only downside is that at the moment, Emacspeak requires a Dectalk speech 
synthesizer.  A new Dectalk costs $1200.

Raman has put all the Dectalk-specific programming in a small "driver" program.  
So it should be easy to write drivers for other speech synthesizers and I think 
it will not be long these become available.

I also have a web page about Emacspeak:
http://www.sover.net/~manx/emacspk.html

Best regards,
  --Mark
-- 
Mark Newbold
Montpelier, Vermont USA
WWW: http://www.sover.net/~manx


  reply	other threads:[~ UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Craig Martin
 ` Kenneth Albanowski
 ` Jim Rebman
 ` Sam Hartman
   ` Kenneth Albanowski
 ` Steve Holmes
   ` Kenneth Albanowski
     ` Mark Newbold [this message]
 Lar Kaufman
 ` Jim Rebman
   ` Jason John Griffin White
   ` Craig Martin
     ` Ken Perry
     ` Joel Zimba
     ` Ben Van Poppel
 michael malver
 Travis Siegel
 HRTC
 ` Travis Siegel
   ` Brian L. Sellden
     ` Travis Siegel
       ` Joel Zimba
       ` William Loughborough
         ` Travis Siegel
       ` Jim Rebman
         ` Travis Siegel
       ` Brian L. Sellden

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