TTSynth Is Here At Last

David Poehlman david.poehlman at handsontechnologeyes.com
Thu Jun 7 21:17:36 EDT 2007


I'd love to try running ttsynth on my Mac.  This is where all this started.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: TTSynth Is Here At Last


I should expect it would be harder to run Speakup on a Mac than to run
TTSynth on a Mac. Speakup is a patch to the Linux kernel, not the
Mac kernel.

Janina

David Poehlman writes:
> so I cannot run speakup on my Mac?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 2:48 PM
> Subject: Re: TTSynth Is Here At Last
>
>
> David Poehlman writes:
> > wonder if it will work on the Mac, no demo available to try eh?
>
> Doubt it very much. Even if you have libstdc++-2.96 compatibility, you'd
> need a supported interface between your screen reader and the TTS
> engine. On Linux that would be gnome-speech, or speech-dispatcher, or
> speakup-connector, or py-ibmtts, or the emacspeak driver.
>
> Janina
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:40 PM
> > Subject: TTSynth Is Here At Last
> >
> >
> > The premier Text To Speech (TTS) software synthesizer for Linux is now
> > available for immediate on line purchase and download using a credit 
> > card!
> >
> > http://TTSynth.Com
> >
> > Available Modules Include:
> >      * IBM's incomparable IBM TTS text to speech (formerly called
> >        ViaVoice)
> >      * Gnome-Speech patched for use with LSR and Orca
> >      * The TTSynth Speakup Bridge for screen reading with Speakup
> >      * ttsynth_say binary for the CLI or for use in scripts
> >      * Also supported by Emacspeak KTTS, and Speech Dispatcher
> >
> > Available Languages For Linux
> >      * Chinese
> >      * English
> >      * Finnish
> >      * French
> >      * German
> >      * Italian
> >      * Japanese
> >      * Portuguese
> >      * Spanish
> >
> >    The best is also very affordable. Your first language license is only
> > $40
> > USD
> > and each additional language license is only $20 USD, when obtained at 
> > the
> > same time.
> >
> >    Use your credit card to purchase and download TTSynth now, and start
> > enjoying the best software speech available for Linux today.
> >
> > Go to http://TTSynth.Com.
> >
> > We provide TTSynth in both .rpm and .deb packages to make it easy to
> > install TTSynth on Fedora, Ubuntu, and most Linux distributions which
> > utilize these package managers.
> >
> > TTSynth is a product of Capital Accessibility, LLC.
> >
> > -- 
> >
> > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina at a11y.org
> > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com
> >
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> -- 
>
> Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina at a11y.org
> Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com
>
> Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and
> Canada
> Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com
>
> Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org
> Linux Foundation http://a11y.org
>
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Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina at a11y.org
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com

Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and 
Canada
Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com

Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org
Linux Foundation http://a11y.org

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