From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from opera.rednote.net ([74.53.93.34]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HwRa1-0000OW-00 for ; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:39:49 -0400 Received: from opera.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by opera.rednote.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l57Ndm8b000812 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 23:39:48 GMT Received: (from janina@localhost) by opera.rednote.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l57Ndmc4000811 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:39:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:39:48 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: TTSynth Is Here At Last Message-ID: <20070607233948.GI26670@rednote.net> References: <20070607164001.GA26668@rednote.net> <20070607191102.GC21667@cm.nu> <003501c7a942$20639000$224a5c46@brent827e59cc1> <20070607211204.GG26670@rednote.net> <20070607215604.GA29148@cm.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070607215604.GA29148@cm.nu> X-Operating-System: Linux opera.rednote.net 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7spk Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) 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, 07 Jun 2007 23:39:49 -0000 Hi, Shane: I'm not myself competent to give you a really intelligent answer about all these details. However, I can tell you that we're supported by multiple speech drivers in open source, inclugind gnome-speech, py-ibmtts, and our own speakup-connector. You can certainly look at the source of these without spending money for the TTSynth product. I believe you'll find multiple approaches. Janina Shane writes: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:12:04PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > We did what we could to support alsa, but support is via alsa's oss. > > Can't do anything about that because it's hardcoded into ibmtts, and we > > do not have that source code. However, there were problems running with > > alsa which were fixed some time ago. It was one of the early issues that > > held us up. There have been lots of issues! > > Hmm, I would think ALSA support would be trivial. The > ibmtts can output pcm via callback to the application. > Speakup plugin, say program or whatever which could just > use ALSA for the playback. No real reason to use ibmtts > for playback as such is there? > > S > > -- > http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina@a11y.org Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org