Re: Linux accessibility for artic

[Ken Perry <whistler@blinksoft.com>]

All I will say is this was not intended as a flame against Emacs or its
writer although it looks as it was taken as one.  I have tryed to write a
driver and I am a programmer in more languages than I can count.  I don't
care to learn a new language (emacs).  I also have talked to at least 3
others that tryed to write a driver and gave up.  I just say the proof is
in the pudding and I see no other drivers popping up so it must not be as
easy as you say.  I am not knocking  Emacs cause from what I hear it with
Dectalk are a very good speech synth program for Linux and any unix for
that matter.  Oh I have a question I know that Emacs has been ported to
Windows NT have you tryed Windows NT through emacs  speak?  
One more question then I will shut up.  I use dectalks at school where I
work.   I have set up 5 dos machines all with dectalks and  10 machines
with Double talk.  I have found that the dectalks slow the dos machines
down conciderably doing normal tasks like formating drives and even
copying files if I remove the dectalks and use another synth card like
double talk the machine runs at normal speed.  The question is what does
dectalk do to your unix machines speed  I am hoping since unix is a multi
user multi device OS it doesn't affect the speed of the machine like it
does dos.

Ken /whistler

On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, T. V. Raman wrote:

> 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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