Re: another idea for speech.

[Travis Siegel <tsiegel@softcon.com>]

> NO, NO, NO!  Emacspeak is not for X-Windows -- it is for just what you 
> describe; native speech access for the linux/unix console and shell 
> users.  It is possible to run it in an xterm window though.  I have no 

Thank you, this is what I wanted to know.  Somewhere (I don't know where)
I got the impression emacspeak was for x-windows.

> If you do not have a dectalk express, or other serial dectalk, or an 
> Alpha running the software dectalk, then you will have to write your own 
> driver for your synthesizer.

That's assuming of course I can get enough documentation out of Artic to
do so.  I've not had much luck in this endevour in the past.  I will
certainly give it a try though.

> The driver will have to be written in tclx (extended tcl), not in "Emacs" 

Well, now, that's not a language I'm familiar with, so it will take some
doing to do the job, but if I can get the info I require from Artic
Technologies, I'll certainly do what I can to make this work.

> effort to make it work.  I am running it on a pentium-166 tower machine 
> with no terminal attached, and on a pentium-133 laptop.  Trust me, it 
> does actually provide speech for linux.

There, now was that so difficult folks? These are all good points, and
just what I expected the first time.  Not a message telling me to keep as
many threads open as possible.  I'll do what I can to make things work
here, and as long as the rest of us do the same, we should have across the
board access in no time.

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