From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id EEB1A1EF899; Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:56:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from dragnet.batsupport.com (dragnet.batsupport.com [176.9.155.71]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 03F821EF84A for ; Sat, 5 Dec 2015 05:56:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.133] (ip98-176-22-138.sd.sd.cox.net [98.176.22.138]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bats@batsupport.com) by dragnet.batsupport.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A798F1F0006E for ; Sat, 5 Dec 2015 02:56:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: software speech To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20151205035718.GA21120@qlf.suddenlink.net> From: Tony Baechler Organization: Baechler Access Technology Services Message-ID: <5662C2E3.1000509@baechler.net> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 02:56:35 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 10:56:37 -0000 On 12/4/2015 8:21 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Tom, > Does NVDa support hardware speech at all? > Kare The short answer is no. ESpeak is the default but it does support SAPI and has its own software synth called NV Speech Player. However, there is a very basic addon for the DECtalk Express which doesn't work very well and another DECtalk addon which looks better, but I haven't tried it. In theory, it shouldn't be hard to support hardware speech because it has good serial Braille support, but I'm not a Python programmer. I had the idea to hack a Braille driver to support the DECtalk Express, but I didn't get very far and it probably wouldn't work anyway. Therefore, I would say for now the official answer is not really.