Wow, I hope to test it next week at most; thank you! Cleverson 2012/9/19, Bohdan R. Rau <ethanak at polip.com>: > Hi all > > As I promised - my replacement for speechd-up (written from scratch). > Download link: http://tts.polip.com/files/spdup/spdup-0.6.2.tar.gz > > As I said - indexing does not work because I don't know how to generate > text with index marks :( > > Main features: > > 1) No configuration file needed - everything is configurable from > command parameters > 2) Automatic generation of speakup/i18n/chartab based on given encoding > 3) Automatic load of other i18n tables for languages other than english > 4) Must be started as root. Program opens communication with kernel as > root and then drops privileges to normal user, so we are sure > speech-dispatcher won't start as root > 5) Default module and voice may be given as parameters > 6) Up to 7 addidional voices may be configured. In this case > spdup_modify_keymap script should be used to have spk-s and spk-a keys > for voice switch > 8) Keeps current settings for all speech-dispatcher parameters after > speech-dispatcher restart > 9) Single retry after speech-dispatcher crash > > Polish translation (not complete) and Polish "fake-latin2" keyboard are > included. > > In "debian" folder you can find postinstall script for Ubuntu 11.04 or > higher and Polish language. The script is provided only Polish ubuntu > users - do not run this script if You are not Polish speaker or not in > Ubuntu! This script makes some modification in your system: > > 1) switches pulse-audio into "system" mode (if not in this mode) > 2) installs and configures pl_PL.ISO-8859-2 locale > 3) switches console from UTF-8 into ISO-8859-2 and sets its own > keyboard as default > 4) creates speechd-up user if not exists > > Startup script (also in debian folder) may be probably used without > very big modification on all distros. > > Some remarks to tables rewriting: > > 1) Table files are in fact executable scripts. It may be changed in > future but some script will be provided, because translations and > keyboard files are rather part of speakup. > 2) Table files now must be in encoding used in particular language (for > example ISO-8859-2 for Polish). It will be changed in near future; files > would be in any encoding (having 'coding' line) and will be converted to > particular encoding on the fly. It must be done, because there are some > languages which can use more than one encodings (for example ISO-8859-13 > for Polish). > > Enjoy! > > ethanak > -- > http://milena.polip.com/ - Pa pa, Ivonko! > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
