From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 9107 invoked from network); 29 Dec 1996 15:49:56 -0000 Received: from maple.sover.net (root@204.71.16.11) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Dec 1996 15:49:55 -0000 Received: from lambda (pm0a22.mont.sover.net [206.25.67.122]) by maple.sover.net (8.8.4/8.8.2) with SMTP id KAA14156 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 10:49:55 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <32C692DC.244C@sover.net> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 10:48:44 -0500 From: Mark Newbold X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: another idea for speech References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: 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