From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from regin.oit.pdx.edu ([131.252.120.56]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1IAV3e-0008SA-00 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:12:30 -0400 Received: from [38.100.217.170] ([38.100.217.170]) (authenticated bits=0) by regin.oit.pdx.edu (8.13.3+/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l6GICSql007912 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:12:30 -0700 Subject: Re: Speech Dispatcher 0.6.4 beta1 -- request for help with testing From: Hynek Hanke To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <001a01c7c741$0928d0e0$0203a8c0@Mikelaptop> References: <1184396965.6917.37.camel@chopin> <1184517396.4130.4.camel@layla.Mshome> <001a01c7c741$0928d0e0$0203a8c0@Mikelaptop> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:12:27 -0700 Message-Id: <1184609547.5275.4.camel@chopin> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:12:31 -0000 > Would be good to have voice mapping control in the module as espeak offers > so many more voices than speech-dispatcher offers, but in some ways that's > more of a speech-dispatcher problem (it may have been better if it had a > function to retrieve a list of voice names that clients could use, rather > than this set number). Hi Michael, Speech Dispatcher can retrieve a list of voice names and set a specific voice now. I don't know however how we could use that with Speakup since the current output mechanism doesn't support this. But I'll ask Kirk about it. You can still select various eSpeak voices for the various languages by just switching the language (symbolic voice names like MALE1 etc. operate under the given language). There is currently only 6 different voices available for English in eSpeak and much less for the other languages, so I believe all should now be selectable using these symbolic voice names. We have however already designed a more sophisticated mechanism for the next versions of Dispatcher. With regards, Hynek Hanke