In article <000601c6cb9b$3cd10ae0$6501a8c0 at SeaTrout>, Chris Hofstader <chris.hofstader at knology.net> wrote: > > Do you know if this will run with a screen reader in windows? > > If it is a SAPI 5 synthesizer, it should work immediately with JAWS > or Window-Eyes if its installer registers it properly. If not, one > would either need to write a SAPI wrapper for it or write a direct > JAWS or WE synthesizer interface for the screen reader to access it > properly. > Also, I am not sure its a Windows program so some major porting may be > necessary. Firstly, yes, the program code can run OK on Windows. Someone has incorporated the eSpeak program code within their Windows application and tells me it's working OK. (the project is: http://apocalyx.sourceforge.net, an open source 3D graphics engine for games). I made a few changes so that it would compile OK. But what you need is a stand-alone speech engine with a SAPI interface. Would that be a DLL? I know nothing about Windows programming, so I don't know how to do that, or how to register the service it provides with the Windows OS. If anyone wants to write such a wrapper, let me know and I'll offer help. I hadn't thought that a Windows version would be useful, as there are good software synthesizers available either free or at little cost. Unless you somehow prefer this parody of my voice :-)
