Oh, thought there was something at Csun this year. I wish I knew what it was. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane" <shane-keyword-speakup.aca783@xxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:52 PM Subject: Re: Talking Myth TV? > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:49:13AM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: >> Is that speech interface to MythTV, a box based on Myth that speaks, or >> whatever they were supposed to talk about at CSUN regarding this actually > > Do you mean the box I just posted or a different thread? > If a different thread, disregard this as it isn't really > relevant. The box I posted uses Freevo rather than MythTV > but afaik, the functionality of the two apps is similar. > Freevo is more of a set-top frontend though which supports > extensive media playback options through mplayer. The > speech interface to that is custom built. A trivial patch > mind you but custom. I've never played with MythTV but if > it doesn't use gtk, qt or whatever the X-windows based > screenreaders use, I'm sure you could modify Myth to simply > call an external program for speech output. That's all my > freevo patch does, runs a script with the text on > commandline. The script then takes care of the rest, > killing any other speak scripts which happen to be running > so you can interrupt it by pressing buttons quickly and > then calling a speech synthesizer, Festival, Dectalk or the > like. > > S > > -- > http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
