software speech for speakup

[Shaun Oliver]

Well, an interesting point my man.
I agree that windows2000 has a far from perfect speech accessable
interface. What can I say? It's done using the microstuffed agent
character merlin and the sam engine of the ms tts engine. man my mIRC
client uses the learnout&hauspie true voice tts and I think it shits all
over the microstuffed tts engine. but that's getting off the track.
As for your point about sysadmins wanting to do the remote thing I will
also conceed that software speech would be a great workaround. if I knew a
little more about programming than I currently do, I'd have a go at it
myself. Who knows? I'd probably make a good go of it.


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On Thu, 17 May 2001, Kirk Wood wrote:

> Software speech can have a lot of other benefits aside from a laptop. I
> know of at least two people who might be interested in working as a
> network administrator. The problem is that sometimes you have to work from
> a console and will need speech. Plugging in a synth when needed isn't
> feasible, nor is leaving one connected all the time.
> 
> Software speech is quite feasible. It isn't a perfect solution and few
> have played it as such. It will one day be a good work around. This is why
> macroslop has chosen to include rudimentary speech in winblows 2000. They
> don't want to compete with the established market of screen readers
> (yet). But they do want to give basic control to anyone. It is far from
> perfect. But it is there.
> 
> Another thing that this offers is a chance to benefit from increasing the
> market for speech synthasis. Some people are using some built in tool to
> have a document read to them. Kind of the you hear a mistake better then
> your eyes see it thing. Software speech is the only way this is cost
> effective. But it could expand the market and help drive down the cost of
> a hardware synth in time. If nothing else, consider that within a few
> years computers with the power for software speech will cost less and be
> as small as the hardware synths of today. So who knows, perhaps the future
> will be a "hardware" synth running linux. If that doesn't give pause, I
> don't know what will.
> 
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
> 
> Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.
> 
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