From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 8718 invoked from network); 3 Dec 1996 17:24:03 -0000 Received: from blinksoft.com (whistler@205.164.108.208) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 1996 17:24:02 -0000 Received: from localhost (whistler@localhost) by blinksoft.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA24103; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:20:10 -0700 Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:20:10 -0700 (MST) From: Ken Perry To: "T. V. Raman" cc: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Linux accessibility for artic In-Reply-To: <199612031709.JAA26824@labrador> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: 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? > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com > > > Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > > > Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux > > > To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com > > > with subject line: unsubscribe > > > > > > > --- > > Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com > > Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > > Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux > > To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com > > with subject line: unsubscribe > > -- > Best Regards, > --raman > > Adobe Systems Tel: 1 (408) 536 3945 (W14-129) > Advanced Technology Group Fax: 1 (408) 537 4042 > (W14 129) 345 Park Avenue Email: raman@adobe.com > San Jose , CA 95110 -2704 Email: raman@cs.cornell.edu > http://labrador.corp.adobe.com/~raman/raman.html (Adobe Internal) > http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/raman/raman.html (Cornell) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are my own and in no way should be taken > as representative of my employer, Adobe Systems Inc. > ____________________________________________________________ > > --- > Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com > Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux > To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com > with subject line: unsubscribe >