Re: ORCA / Linux Compatibility
- From: Andreas Stefik <stefika@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:00:15 -0500
Thanks, Jared, this helps,
Stefik
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Jared Wright <wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Given how self-voicing your making Sodbeans and given that Orca simply uses
> other TTS server software for its output, you might try referencing those
> directly rather than going through Orca. The predominant one in use, so far
> as I can tell, is Speech Dispatcher.
> http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd
> This is the TTS server for example, that runs all the output for Speakup,
> Orca, and Emacspeak on my Linux installations. AS far as distributions,
> lots of blind users are using the stuff that's implemented the Gnome
> Accessibility framework, since that's where all of Orca's bread and butter
> resides. But again, your application seems more self-contained, so you
> really are not dependent on all those libraries. But a lot of blind users
> will be using them regardless. Latching onto something like Vinux might not
> be a bad idea simply for the extra community support it'll bring.
>
>
> On 08/17/2010 05:29 PM, Andreas Stefik wrote:
>>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I have a student that is going to be working soon on getting ORCA and
>> general linux speech compatibility into our Sodbeans tool, a self
>> voicing utility, audio debugger, and programming language in NetBeans.
>> I don't have very much experience doing text-to-speech on Linux, so
>> I'm hoping to probe the community and see what folks know about this
>> already.
>>
>> A few questions:
>>
>> 1. Should we be targeting ORCA compatibility or something else?
>> 2. Any particular distros that we really should support (e.g., ubuntu,
>> vinux)?
>> 3. Any good tutorials or existing code we can plug into to get started?
>>
>> Stefik
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