Re: Text to speech? (fwd)

[Travis Siegel <tsiegel softcon com>]

Hi folks.  Sitting here, and reading all the messages lately (well, for
the past month) about emacspeak, and other speech options for linux, I'd
like very much to make access available on a much wider scale.  Problem
is, there's only (at the moment that I know of) a driver for dec-talk
external synthesizers.  Now I understand why externals are easier to
handle, and I'd only continue that trend, as I haven't a clue how to write
the required drivers for internal cards.  Anyway, my question is, where
could I obtain either funding to purchase external synthesizers such as
doubletalk (the least expensive) or even artic's transport.  I don't
really think the lion's clubs are usable here, since my current speech
needs are quite well met with the two artic internal speech boards I
already own.  And I can't guarantee that anything will really come out of
this project, since I'm only a beginner C programmer.  (pascal is my
language of choice) I'm willing to give this a shot though.  I don't see
why an interface couldn't be written for the braille and speak as well.
Is there somewhere folks can go to maybe borrow these pieces of equipment
for brief periods of time? If not, what might be the easiest way to obtain
one or more of these synthesizers?  Most likely, one at a time, until the
interface for that card is complete, so as not to tie up equipment or
funds for too long.  I'd purchase them myself, only at the moment, I'm
paying more for my business than it's bringing in (yeah, what else is new)
If anyone has any ideas, I'd be glad to hear them.  And if someone could
resend that message to me about the translation of the tcl code to C that
someone did recently I'd appriciate that too.  Thanks.  There's probably
others more qualified to do this conversion, but I'm never opposed to
trying things. *grin*


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