I thought of writing a speechdispatcher driver but there were some problems.
When I've tried speechdispatcher with software speech there were lags and
little glitches. I'm not sure if these were being introduced by
speechdispatcher, speechd-up, or some combination of the two. Also, my
version of speechdispatcher has a nasty habbit of segfaulting, not sure why.
I don't think this would solve the indexing problem anyway, as far as I
know speechd-up uses speakup's software synth driver and that doesn't
support indexing, or has this changed? I also think the less layers you have
between speakup and the synth the better, one program is probably better
than two.
What I'd really like to do, if I ever have the time, is write a speach
daemon to replace this whole mess. Something like speechdispatcher but with
more modularity. There could be modules for output, allowing hardware and
software synth support. Modules for input, for various forms of input like
speechdispatcher compatibility, speakup, fifo, or anything else that might
be needed. Modules for conversion, allowing things like a word dictionary,
number processing, etc. The main goal of the program would be to get fast,
responsive speech from whatever synth the user chooses to use.
I think this would be a worthwhile project it would just require time to
write.
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Shawn, maybe it might be easier and more universal to write a speech
dispatcher driver instead? That way, if you use speechd-up, indexing
would work. What do you think?
Shawn Kirkpatrick <shawn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've written a program that will allow hardware synthesizers to be
used with speakup even thoe the serial support seems to be currently
broken. I wrote this program about a year ago when I thought this
problem would be only temporary. Since it seems like the hardware
synthesizer support is still broken and isn't going to be fixed
anytime soon I thought I'd put it out there in case it can be of some
use.
The program is called speakupbridge.
speakupbridge is a program which makes it possible for speakup to use
external serial, parallel, or usb synthesizers. It does this by reading
speakup's softsynth device and passing the text to the synthesizer.
speakupbridge has the following features:
* The ability to communicate with any device that can accept a string
of text using a /dev interface.
* The ability to define the commands used by the synthesizer in a
user-editable configuration file.
* Multiple synthesizer definitions in a single configuration file.
* Change the pronunciation of words using a dictionary file (a feature
speakup
really should do itself).
* Save and reload speakup settings for each defined synthesizer.
For more information or to download the program please visit:
http://www.shawnk.ca/speakup
I haven't had a lot of time to work on or test this code lately so
there's likely to be some rough spots. You'll have to compile the code
but that should be easy enough. I've tested this with my serial Artic
transport synthesizer and it seems to work. I don't use speakup
regularly thoe (too many other missing/bbroken features) so this
program really hasn't had any hard testing.
This solution isn't perfect, you still won't get kernel messages from
boot up but it least it should be possible to use a hardware
synthesizer once the system is started and that's probably better than
nothing at all.
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