From: "Brent Harding" <bharding@doorpi.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Talking Myth TV?
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 16:30:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001301c7931b$9580e140$224a5c46@brent827e59cc1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070509175208.GA19762@cm.nu>
Oh, thought there was something at Csun this year. I wish I knew what it
was.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shane" <shane-keyword-speakup.aca783@cm.nu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: Talking Myth TV?
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:49:13AM -0500, Brent Harding wrote:
>> Is that speech interface to MythTV, a box based on Myth that speaks, or
>> whatever they were supposed to talk about at CSUN regarding this actually
>
> Do you mean the box I just posted or a different thread?
> If a different thread, disregard this as it isn't really
> relevant. The box I posted uses Freevo rather than MythTV
> but afaik, the functionality of the two apps is similar.
> Freevo is more of a set-top frontend though which supports
> extensive media playback options through mplayer. The
> speech interface to that is custom built. A trivial patch
> mind you but custom. I've never played with MythTV but if
> it doesn't use gtk, qt or whatever the X-windows based
> screenreaders use, I'm sure you could modify Myth to simply
> call an external program for speech output. That's all my
> freevo patch does, runs a script with the text on
> commandline. The script then takes care of the rest,
> killing any other speak scripts which happen to be running
> so you can interrupt it by pressing buttons quickly and
> then calling a speech synthesizer, Festival, Dectalk or the
> like.
>
> S
>
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