Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

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Thanks Jude,
Then, for me,  there is nothing more to be said.
I cannot use the best synthesizer tool for my individual accommodation needs. Therefore it is not a matter of choice. Providing a variety of paths to these doors, ones that did not require an individual to be different, to find inclusion, still feels like a rich direction.
Karen



On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

This question was brought up on another list with quite a long thread and
the answer appears to be no.  Orca wasn't written to support hardware
synthesizers.



Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)

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On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

Is there a way of using this, or any hardware synthesizer with orca?
Orca is the baseline for these twitter alternatives after all.
Karen



On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

Isn?t it true that you can also use hardware synthesizers with Speech
Dispatcher?  I thought I remembered seeing modules for synths such as
Apollo.


Ryan Mann
Certified Assistive Technology Instructional Specialist
rmann0581@xxxxxxxxx
386-383-5175


On Jan 29, 2023, at 7:43 PM, Linux for blind general discussion
<blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Le 30/01/2023 ? 00:40, Karen wrote :
Speech dispatcher is, to the best of my knowledge, a software speech
source only.

No. Speech dispatcher takes as input the text sent by screen readers like
orca
or fenrir or speechd-up or speechd-el or emacspeak and send it to a speech
synthesizer (like espeak-ng, pico, flite rhvoice or voxin). The speech
synthesizer converts this text to phonemes then convert them to an audio
file
using one of the voices it handles. This audio file (the speech) is sent
back to
speech dispatcher, which in turn send it to an audio application like
pulse-audio or alsa or pipewire, that send it to an audio device.

So what hear actually depends not on speech dispatcher but on the speech
synthesizer you use and the voice you select among those it handles.

For instance if on the console you use fenrir as screen reader and
espeak-ng as
speech synthesizer and one of its voices, you will hear exactly the same
voice
if in the preferences GUI of Orca (another screen reader) you select the
same
speech synthesizer (espeak-ng) and the same voice. Similarly if you use
fenrir
with rhvoice as speech synthesizer and one of its voices, you can also use
rhvoice and hear the same voice when using Orca.

Cheers,
Didier
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Didier Spaier
didieratslintdotfr

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