Well, Acapella made their voices avalable for voiceover, so I'm sure its possible, it'd just have to be made to be integrated with mac os's tts thing, but there just aren't enough programmers out there for the blind, and that know about mac and espeak. I'm sure the developer of espeak would do it but I don't think he has a mac.
Sent from my iPod On Aug 25, 2013, at 11:35 PM, Sarah k Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some how I don't think it is. I could be wrong though. > > Take care and be blessed. > On Aug 25, 2013, at 9:27 PM, Parham Doustdar <parha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I know eSpeak has a Mac OSX port. However, what I want to know is whether >> there is a way to integrate that port with VoiceOver. I know that eSpeak can >> be run through the command line because of OSX being based on Unix. However, >> since the language I want (Farsi/Persian) is only supported by eSpeak, and I >> don't want to constantly paste stuff into the terminal to have them read out >> to me, I would need to use VoiceOver + eSpeak. >> >> This is what I wonder is possible or not. :-) >> >> Thanks. >> On 8/25/2013 10:56 PM, Chris Gilland wrote: >>> I can't see any reason why ESpeak couldn't be compiled from source to work >>> with Voiceover, however, I'm not sure about its API hooks, so I really >>> don't know how that would work. There is, a version of ESpeak for the Mac, >>> yes, but I'm not totally sure that it can be entegraded with Voiceover. To >>> the best of my knowledge, it's only the command line utility which you have >>> to run inside Terminal. Again, this being said, what it all boils down to >>> by the end of the day is that the underlying hood framework of OSX actually >>> is Unix. Don't get yourself confused here... I didn't say Linux, I said >>> Unix. Granted both are very similar, but I say this to save the discussion >>> of, oh, then, will voxin work? The answer is no. Flat out, no, so don't >>> even ask. Believe me, I've tried and after about 8 hours of trying to >>> compile libraries etc. I finally just said, to hell with it. I got it >>> working enough to where it kind of sort of talked within a command line, >>> but even that was really i > nconsistent, let alone getting it to work with Voiceover, which I never > succeeded at. Anyway, not to stray from the initial topic of this message, > yeah... I think with the fact being that ESpeak runs on a Linux/Unix > platform, it probably could be fairly easally ported, but I'm not sure how it > would be accomplished. >>> >>> Sorry I couldn't be any more help, but that's the brutal answer of truth. >>> >>> Chris. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Parham Doustdar" <parha...@gmail.com> >>> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> >>> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 11:57 AM >>> Subject: Using eSpeak On Mac OSX >>> >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I'm new to this list and a (hopefully) future Mac user. The biggest issue >>>> for me is using eSpeak with VoiceOver. 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