[Kde-accessibility] gnome-speech

Marc Mulcahy marc.mulcahy@sun.com
Tue, 24 Sep 2002 02:00:27 -0600


Pupeno,

The current plan is to use JSML, with some additions to provide more 
specific control over speech parameters.

Marc

At 03:57 PM 9/23/2002 -0400, Pupeno wrote:
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>On Monday 23 September 2002 14:45, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > The "Say" method takes a UTF-8 unicode string that optionally contains
> > XML-style markup.  In that way, a single string can contain multiple
> > languages as well as emphasis, etc, and it's up to the driver
> > implementation to figure out how to speak the substrings in the
> > appropriate language, substituting the nearest-available voice if
> > necessary (for instance if the chosen voice cannot speak in <german>
> > then the driver could substitute or create a similar voice to say the
> > work in question).
> >
> > Best regards,
>
>What xml are you using ? anything standard or you created it ? I know there
>are a lot of xml DTDs starting to appear related to speaking and
>understanding... from VoiceXML to others I don't remember the names :)
>If you're using a XML set of tags that you created or you're using a set of
>another standard, please, let's share it so Proklam supports the same.
>The diference would be that Proklam XML processing would happen in the core
>and not in the plug in as diferent language will go to diferent loaded plug
>ins (this will allow to load diferent plug ins/TTS for diferent languages).
>I work with UTF8 all the time, I don't see a reason to use something diferent,
>I even have the file names of my computer in UTF8 wich means Windows is not
>able to read them... bah! :)
>Thanks.
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