Re: another idea for speech

[Mark Newbold <manx@sover.net>]

Kenneth Albanowski wrote:

> Are there any solutions, are they free, and are they usable? More to the
> point, do you _need_ the functions that Synthavoice could provide, and
> would Linux be a good platform to work under? If so, $500 doesn't seem
> impossible.

Check out the Emacspeak program written by blind programmer/mathematician T V 
Raman.  It is free and very powerful.  Raman's home page is:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/raman/raman.html

The only downside is that at the moment, Emacspeak requires a Dectalk speech 
synthesizer.  A new Dectalk costs $1200.

Raman has put all the Dectalk-specific programming in a small "driver" program.  
So it should be easy to write drivers for other speech synthesizers and I think 
it will not be long these become available.

I also have a web page about Emacspeak:
http://www.sover.net/~manx/emacspk.html

Best regards,
  --Mark
-- 
Mark Newbold
Montpelier, Vermont USA
WWW: http://www.sover.net/~manx

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