Speechd-up experimental replacement

[Cleverson Casarin Uliana]

Wow, I hope to test it next week at most; thank you!

Cleverson

2012/9/19, Bohdan R. Rau <ethanak at polip.com>:
>  Hi all
>
>  As I promised - my replacement for speechd-up (written from scratch).
>  Download link: http://tts.polip.com/files/spdup/spdup-0.6.2.tar.gz
>
>  As I said - indexing does not work because I don't know how to generate
>  text with index marks :(
>
>  Main features:
>
>  1) No configuration file needed - everything is configurable from
>  command parameters
>  2) Automatic generation of speakup/i18n/chartab based on given encoding
>  3) Automatic load of other i18n tables for languages other than english
>  4) Must be started as root. Program opens communication with kernel as
>  root and then drops privileges to normal user, so we are sure
>  speech-dispatcher won't start as root
>  5) Default module and voice may be given as parameters
>  6) Up to 7 addidional voices may be configured. In this case
>  spdup_modify_keymap script should be used to have spk-s and spk-a keys
>  for voice switch
>  8) Keeps current settings for all speech-dispatcher parameters after
>  speech-dispatcher restart
>  9) Single retry after speech-dispatcher crash
>
>  Polish translation (not complete) and Polish "fake-latin2" keyboard are
>  included.
>
>  In "debian" folder you can find postinstall script for Ubuntu 11.04 or
>  higher and Polish language. The script is provided only Polish ubuntu
>  users - do not run this script if You are not Polish speaker or not in
>  Ubuntu! This script makes some modification in your system:
>
>  1) switches pulse-audio into "system" mode (if not in this mode)
>  2) installs and configures pl_PL.ISO-8859-2 locale
>  3) switches console from UTF-8 into ISO-8859-2 and sets its own
>  keyboard as default
>  4) creates speechd-up user if not exists
>
>  Startup script (also in debian folder) may be probably used without
>  very big modification on all distros.
>
>  Some remarks to tables rewriting:
>
>  1) Table files are in fact executable scripts. It may be changed in
>  future but some script will be provided, because translations and
>  keyboard files are rather part of speakup.
>  2) Table files now must be in encoding used in particular language (for
>  example ISO-8859-2 for Polish). It will be changed in near future; files
>  would be in any encoding (having 'coding' line) and will be converted to
>  particular encoding on the fly. It must be done, because there are some
>  languages which can use more than one encodings (for example ISO-8859-13
>  for Polish).
>
>  Enjoy!
>
>  ethanak
> --
>  http://milena.polip.com/ - Pa pa, Ivonko!
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