Orca does use it in Gnome, you're correct, although, there are other voices
that you can use with speech-dispatcher, such as Festival, Cepstral, Voxin,
if you're lucky enough to find all the outdated C libraries etc, Pico/SVox,
and a few others. I think even the Mbrella voices might work. This is
getting off topic so I'll end the thread here, but I did want to confirm,
yes, Sarah, you are correct. Orca does by default use ESpeak. Speechd-up
also can use ESpeak if you want to get Speakup to work with ESpeak through
Speech-Dispatcher. If you have any questions on how to get that up and
running, shoot me off an e-mail privately, or DM me on Twitter, and I'll see
if I can get you the docs to do it. I think they may be on the Orca Wiki.
Anyway, ok, thread over.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah k Alawami" <marri...@gmail.com>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: Using eSpeak On Mac OSX
One day perhaps. I personally love ESpeak as it is a very responsive
synth and would be on on a mac as the voice quality is not too good, but
not too bad either.I think Orka uses it so, maybe one day.
Tc all.
On Aug 26, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Devin Prater <d.pra...@me.com> wrote:
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. Is such a thing
possible?
Thanks!
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