Speechd-Up

Speakup to Speech Dispatcher interface

Maintainer: Hynek Hanke <hanke@brailcom.org>

Index:

Introduction
People
Documentation
Source code
Mailing lists

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Introduction

The aim of Speechd-Up is to give users the possibility to use the Speakup screen reader with software synthesis. It works as an interface daemon between Speakup and Speech Dispatcher, who takes care of the software synthesis. Currently, Festival, Flite and Dectalk software (non-free) are supported in Speech Dispatcher, but generally any software synthesizer can be made to work.

We believe that a general screen reader can't be a substitute for a specialized application interfaces like speechd-el or Emacspeak. But on the other side, it is really important in the setting where the specialized support is lacking or where the specialized applications aren't working for some reason. There are many such situations and we think Speakup is a very good solution for these.

Speakup with Speechd-Up and Speech Dispatcher enables users to:

Work with programs like bash, links (javascript), mutt, ...
Read or browse any place visible on the screen
Use high quality software synthesis for this
Switch to hardware synthesis when nothing else works

People

Hynek Hanke <hanke@freebsoft.org> ... development
Jan Buchal <buchal@brailcom.org> ... consultations, testing
Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca> ... author of Speakup, consultations

Documentation

Full documentation is available as a part of the project and is distributed together with the source code.

You can browse the HTML version on-line.

Source code

Latest released version is 0.4.

Download the source package: speechd-up-0.4.tar.gz
Project archive: /pub/projects/speechd-up

The source code is managed using CVS. There are the following options to get the current development version.

Download the latest CVS snapshot.
Use CVS web interface.
Use anonymous CVS access (see below)
Become a member of our team and get full read/write access to the repository. Please, contact project maintainer for more information.

Anonymous CVS access (login with an empty password):

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freebsoft.org:/var/lib/cvs login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freebsoft.org:/var/lib/cvs checkout speechd-up

Subscribe to the mailing-list speechd-up-cvs@lists.freebsoft.org for notifications about all CVS commits.

Mailing lists

If you want to discuss Speechd-Up issues publicly, you can use the Speech Dispatcher mailing lists.