Look at my original post on software speech to find out why I just can't rush out and get a doubletalk pc for this system. Also, I wasn't asking Kirk to recode his whole system (yes, he has done an impressive job so far for which I'm sure all of us are very greateful for). I was merely making a suggestion that might not require Kirk to recode speakup from the beginning. Greg On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:13:28AM -0700, Ken Perry wrote: > > Well I am what I consider to be a master troll. A troll is a person who > watches a email group or news group but never really posts unless goated > into it. > > Well my time has come once again to speak up. No pun intended. I am > recieving my BS in Computer Software Engineering and I far surpass my > sighted class mates in ability so hopefully once August 3 comes and goes I > will be able to contribute more to this project. Right now I am fully in > Gear to finish school however so I am not able to help like I would like. > > My idea on software speech is to do exactly what one has already hinted > wowards and that is well create a software synth that is free currently > the easy and compact ones to use are VIA voice and even Dec talk software > speech for Windows. There is also festival but it is a big pig and is not > pretty to use. What I would like to do is make a morecompact via voice > or dectalk style speech that only has one voice like double talk. > something like the old SAM for C-64 but that will start working as soon as > all initialazation is completed true we will miss boot up messages but in > Linux that is not a crime in fact most of the sighted people I know don't > sit there and stair at them because you can usually get into linux and > check the messages from previous boots unlike windows 98. As long as the > speech came up when the user prompt came up that would be perfect. > > I have not really been able to dive into Speakup code and really get my > feet wet but I think that What has been begun can be well um worked to > make this possible. I want to say though what has been done so far is > very impressive and I don't think any one should expect Kurt to recode > his whole system in fact I think I would rather a system that finally > works for lets just say double talk pc than a system that never gets to > the point where we can use it. Its not that hard to rus out and buy a > double talk pc and that would finally be a perfect solution to get us all > out of windows and into an operating system we can all well re-engineer > the way we want. > > So stop begging for Software synth and work on getting the system to work > as is first. ASAP and WINDOW-eyes and JFW didn't just come up working > supporting every means of software and hardware synth. I used a computer > for 8 years before that was even possible. I am sure we can live with a > couple more years of needing hardware to support our system. > > > Ken Perry /System Admin www.valhalla.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
