Hi Kyle,
Starting from the bottom answer wise.
I use DOS, am doing so right now, in fact, but I have hardware sources for
speech.
because freedos is currently under development, along with some other DOS
distributions, another person started a thread about software speech and
DOS.
Freedos needs to use open source. There is, for example, a compile using
ASAP, done with permission. Problem there is it uses braille & speak
voice.
Anyway, another member created a build using piper and provox. His idea
was using a raspberry pi in place of a hardware synthesizer. I am not sure
if that was the basis of his recording, which I heard myself.
I personally must be profoundly careful about speech sources, many can
trigger seizures for me due to an accident during a surgery impacting how
my brain manages allot of speech related things just now.
Dectalk might be ideal, if legal smiles.
I believe one of your references is the option used to run speech in the
terminal of the mac, is that correct?
If you want to learn more about the piper adventure, I can share how to
join the freedos list.
Kare
On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, 'Kyle' via blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I know of Pied and got it working here, but it assumes that the screen
reader can talk through speech-dispatcher directly. What's more, it has
a graphical interface, so choosing a voice wouldn't be as easy as a
command. That said, if you can drop in a configuration file, it just may
work without the graphical interface, although I don't have one to send
along at this time, as I found it to be a bit funky with random letters
and sometimes numbers. Even some words made it mumble at times, so I had
to revert to DECTalk. Now if you don't mind RHVoice, it works with
speech-dispatcher as well, in fact it ships with its own
speech-dispatcher module. In either case, though it may not work with
speakup, either RHVoice or Piper will in fact work with both TDSR and
Fenrir in text mode, as well as Orca in graphical desktop mode.
So someone got Provox talking with software speech in FreeDOS? I need to
find out more about this. Gives me something else to play with over here.
~ Kyle
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