[Kde-accessibility] DECtalk/Linux and other commercial speech synthesizers

[Bill Haneman]

Why don't you guys just write a gnome-speech plugin?  Or work with us to
separate out the in-process gnome-speech driver layer from the
CORBA/Bonobo outer layer?

We already have drivers for DecTalk/FONIX, FreeTTS, Theta,
viavoice/Eloquence, and other synths.

All this duplication of effort, when there is so much work to do, makes
me sad.

- Bill

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 15:22, Gary Cramblitt wrote:
> I would like to write a plugin for the KDE Text-to-Speech Deamon (KTTSD) to 
> support DECtalk/Linux.  This is a commercial package from Fonix that supports 
> English, German, Spanish, and French.  Although these languages can be 
> synthesized using the plugins we already have, it would be nice to support 
> users who might have DECtalk.
> 
> If anyone has a copy they wouldn't mind me having, or knows where I can 
> acquire such a copy at no cost, I'd be appreciative.
> 
> Olaf is already working on getting us a copy of IBM ViaVoice.
> 
> If anyone knows of other commercial synths they think ought to be supported 
> and can get me a copy, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
> KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
> http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php
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