Speaking Applications

EmacSpeak

The Emacspeak by T. V. Raman <raman@cs.cornell.edu> software package provides speech output for Emacs, and includes "speech servers" for the DECtalk speech synthesizers.

The package emacspeak-ss provides servers for several additional synthesizers:

None of these programs are normally run by the user directly. Instead, they are run by Emacs. That is: Emacs runs the emacspeak code, which executes Tcl, which interprets the server code. This approach is too closely "wired" to usage with Emacspeak, so it may not be used for our general purposes.

This does not mean, that these servers are compleetly a bad idea and we can not use them. Thanks to the author Jim Van Zandt), we can learn from the sources and write the output driver modules for speechd (emacspeek-ss is GPL).

Bart Bunting is working on a speech server using the MBROLA software speech synthesizer.

Bash

X Window System

There is currently (as far as we know...) no speach support for speaking X Window programs.