Greetings all, The current yasr version is from February 2008. I can't get yasr to use espeak properly, which it has to do through emacspeak. That's silly; it should directly support espeak, which has a good C calling interface, see the file speak_lib.h which you may have already: /usr/include/espeak/speak_lib.h and if not, it's included in the Perl CPAN Speech::eSpeak module: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Speech::eSpeak In Perl, Jouke Visser's CPAN module http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Speech::Synthesis provides a generic interface for different TTS Engines. That would be good, but it was last updated in 2005 and only supports: MSAgent, SAPI4 and SAPI5 (Win32), MacSpeech and Festival so it doesn't yet know about espeak :-( It would be fairly easy to use the Speech::eSpeak module: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Speech::eSpeak to give it espeak, though... We have too many of these half-abandoned projects :-( These are two relatively high-value, relatively easy ones. Mike Gorse is not maintaining yasr, but might add espeak support if a suitable patch were submitted; Jouke Visser I can't contact (are you here, Jouke?) and if he's actually disappeared then it should be possible for someone to adopt his module in CPAN. If there's no-one on this list can do it, it shouldn't take much fundraising to hire a couple of sighted programmers for a few days... Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au pj@xxxxxxxxxx (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list