feasibility of speechdispatcher to dtlk?

[Tom Fowle]

Chris and all,
I'll take a look at the various sources, but I suspect you're correct, I
just can't get it out of my head that soft speech is a big load.
Likely that gnome is slow cause of the load of all that graphics, not
speech.

I was looking at speakup and espeak just in case I upgraded to Jessie and
the dtlk didn't fly.
Thanks
Tom

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 01:10:58AM -0700, Chris Brannon wrote:
> Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm> writes:
> 
> > Any thoughts on the feasibility of writing a dtlk driver for
> > speechdispatcher?
> 
> It shouldn't be too bad for someone with the will to do it.
> People have been talking about writing hardware synth drivers for SD for
> a long time, but no one has actually done it.
> 
> Also, I'm sorry to say that hardware speech will not make gnome and orca
> more performant on an older box.  The software speech is not a problem.
> I've used espeakup on a Dell Lattitude C610 with a 700
> MHz processor and 256 megabytes of RAM, and it performed beautifully.  I
> used the eflite speech server for emacspeak on a Toshiba Tecra laptop
> with a 166 MHz CPU and 64 megabytes of RAM.  Again, it performed like a
> champ.  In fact, this was my working environment for most of 2005.
> Software speech just isn't that resource intensive.  The only time it is
> a problem is when the machine is under a painfully heavy load.
> 
> > I thought I had a memory that early orca could drive dtlk, probably
> > pre-speechdispatcher?
> 
> Orca used to be able to use emacspeak speech servers.  Hopefully it
> still can.  Anyway, there's an Emacspeak speech server for the
> Doubletalk.  It was part of the emacspeak-ss package on the old blinux
> ftp site.  That site seems to be dead now, but I think Debian is still
> distributing emacspeak-ss.
> 
> Good luck,
> -- Chris
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