From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.doorpi.net ([209.94.175.5] helo=mail.algoma.doorpi.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HmAyv-00042s-00 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 11:55:05 -0400 Received: from brent827e59cc1 (unverified [70.92.74.34]) by doorpi.net (SurgeMail 3.8f3) with ESMTP id 1603513-1775297 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 10:53:46 -0500 Message-ID: <001301c7931b$9580e140$224a5c46@brent827e59cc1> From: "Brent Harding" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <007401c79259$f9e4e220$224a5c46@brent827e59cc1> <20070509175208.GA19762@cm.nu> Subject: Re: Talking Myth TV? Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 16:30:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Authenticated-User: bharding@doorpi.net X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:55:05 -0000 Oh, thought there was something at Csun this year. I wish I knew what it was. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 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 > > -- > http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >