Speakup website

Brent Harding bharding at doorpi.net
Wed Jan 25 03:18:17 UTC 2006


The slowness of the server was why I bought Fedora on Cheapbytes, think they 
sold the speakup one. My cable modem would've taken over 180 hours to 
download to download at not much more than modem speed.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Joseph CARTER" <knghtbrd at bluecherry.net>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: Speakup website


> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:24:51AM -0500, Kirk Reiser wrote:
>> It is an extremely busy site so the average load is heavy.  There are
>> mirrors that are faster though, one of them being fl.linux-speakup.org.
>
> I figured it was something like that.  I just know of a couple of hosting
> providers who can take a moderate slashdotting and are willing to take
> free software projects free of charge now and then.
>
>
>> Well, I don't know what it is you are trying to do that is different
>> from what else has come along but you can find all the documentation
>> on synthesizers I've been able to accumulate at
>> ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/linux/goodies/synths-documentation/.  If
>> anyone comes accross synth docs I don't have there I'd appreciate them
>> sending it to me so I can make it available.
>
> Jackpot, thanks!  The number one thing I am doing differently than the
> other things I have seen is that I am using index responses extensively
> and neither the speakup interface nor the emacspeak speech server seem to
> support them.
>
> I'm not just reading what's on the screen and shutting up on cue like
> speakup and other screen readers are--I need to know what's just been
> said.  (That's a little frustrating since what I've implemented so far is
> a Macintalk driver so I need not use flite, and Macintalk wants to tell
> you what it's just about to read.  Quite annoying actually.)
>
> I'm currently in the market for an external speech synth so I can begin
> working on this stuff on my Linux machines without having to get anywhere
> near flite.  I should just break down and pay for a runtime license for
> dectalk or ttsynth or something I suppose, but that seems somehow less
> useful unless the people who make those things want to include a runtime
> for each of the platforms I am currently working to support (Linux on
> i386, AMD64, and ARM-based PDAs, Apple Darwin PowerPC/i386, Windows XP.)
>
> With my non-talking speech stub, my code literally runs on all of the
> above right now.  (That'll be more impressive when it's closer to finished
> I am sure), and I have been testing it on all of them.  Currently only
> Darwin is supported for speech (as a component of MacOS X no less),
> because my only speech support at present is Macintalk.  I don't intend to
> release it until I have more speech support than that because I don't want
> this thing to become an extremely obscure console-based MacOS X thingy,
> because it's not except that Macintalk is the software speech engine I
> happen to have handy that I am willing to listen to long enough to write
> code for it.  *grin*
>
> -- 
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> but a habit."
> -- Aristotle
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