Talking Myth TV?

[Brent Harding]

Oh, thought there was something at Csun this year. I wish I knew what it 
was.

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From: "Shane" <shane-keyword-speakup.aca783 at cm.nu>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: Talking Myth TV?


> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:49:13AM -0500, Brent Harding wrote:
>> Is that speech interface to MythTV, a box based on Myth that speaks, or
>> whatever they were supposed to talk about at CSUN regarding this actually
>
> Do you mean the box I just posted or a different thread?
> If a different thread, disregard this as it isn't really
> relevant.  The box I posted uses Freevo rather than MythTV
> but afaik, the functionality of the two apps is similar.
> Freevo is more of a set-top frontend though which supports
> extensive media playback options through mplayer.  The
> speech interface to that is custom built.  A trivial patch
> mind you but custom.  I've never played with MythTV but if
> it doesn't use gtk, qt or whatever the X-windows based
> screenreaders use, I'm sure you could modify Myth to simply
> call an external program for speech output.  That's all my
> freevo patch does, runs a script with the text on
> commandline.  The script then takes care of the rest,
> killing any other speak scripts which happen to be running
> so you can interrupt it by pressing buttons quickly and
> then calling a speech synthesizer, Festival, Dectalk or the
> like.
>
> S
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