Re: Fwd: Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-05 Thread Kyle
I'm not at all sure how in the world things like NVDA and Narrator crept into this conversation, since we're talking about Emacs, which is a horse of a different color no matter where it runs. In any case, something that hasn't been updated in years that is open source could always be picked up

Re: Fwd: Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Devin Prater, on Fri 04 Nov 2016 14:59:32 -0500, wrote: > as far as I know, Speechd-el hasn't been updated in years. I've used > Speechd-el, and it reminds me more of Narrator as compared to NVDA, being > Emacspeak. I guess emacspeak could be made to use speechd-el as an output speech synthesis, t

Re: Fwd: Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-04 Thread Fernando Botelho
That is good to know, thanks. The thing is, SpeechD-el apparently is able to handle multiple languages by default, seems to work out-of-the-box with eSpeak, and seems to be easier to setup. One way or another it looks like I will not have it all, but I might get to try this before I figure out

Re: Fwd: Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-04 Thread Devin Prater
as far as I know, Speechd-el hasn't been updated in years. I've used Speechd-el, and it reminds me more of Narrator as compared to NVDA, being Emacspeak. Sure it might could be made to act more like Emacspeak, but users generally don't want to spend that much time adding sound icons, setting th

Re: Fwd: Re: A new tts on Linux

2016-11-04 Thread Fernando Botelho
Thanks very much for this suggestion Raphaë. Best regards, Fernando On 11/04/2016 07:38 AM, Raphaël POITEVIN wrote: Dear Fernando, Message transféré Sujet : Re: A new tts on Linux Date : Thu, 3 Nov 2016 14:38:04 -0200 De : Fernando Botelho Répondre à : fernando.bote...@