Dear Milan, thank you very much for your message. This is extremely useful. Best regards, Fernando -----Original Message----- From: Milan Zamazal [mailto:pdm@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 6:59 AM To: Fernando.Botelho@xxxxxxxx Cc: Hynek Hanke; blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Emacspeak, Speechd-el, speech dispatcher, and foreign language support Hi, as for speechd-el: >>>>> "FB" == Fernando Botelho <Fernando.Botelho@xxxxxxxx> writes: FB> My requirements are: FB> * The ability to use Emacs very efficiently; speechd-el is just a speech and braille interface to Emacs, so it's mostly about whether you can use Emacs itself very efficiently. FB> * The ability to work in multiple languages; speechd-el is designed with this in mind, this is one of its key features. I'm not sure about special cases like Chinese or right-to-left writing, but most languages should work fine and support for both manual and automated language switching is provided in speechd-el. FB> * the ability to use free software synthesizers like eSpeak and FB> eFlite; speechd-el uses Speech Dispatcher for its output, so all speech synthesizers supported by Speech Dispatcher are supported by speechd-el. All most important free speech synthesizers are supported in Speech Dispatcher, i.e. Festival, eSpeak, Flite, and Epos (note that EFlite is not a speech synthesizer, it's just an Emacspeak interface to Flite). FB> * The ability to install Emacs and other needed software without FB> having to spend weeks or months programming in TCL, etc. I'm not sure what you mean here. You can install binary packages from your OS distribution, can't you? FB> Would tools like the G-client designed to work with Google FB> properties be no longer usable? I don't know what G-client is so I can't tell anything about it. If you have any additional questions about speechd-el, you can ask on the Speech Dispatcher mailing list: speechd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (I'm not subscribed to blinux). Regards, Milan Zamazal _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list