On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 11:31 -0500, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > Hi Bruno, > > Brltty does not support speech in Windows. There may be plans for it but as > far as I know nothing has been debugged. Note that I'm braille only so I > wouldn't be the first to know even if it were debugged. > > Note that you have to distinguish between the synthesizer, the part that > actually does the talking, and the screen reader, the part that decides what > to say. Brltty is its own screen reader but synthesizers need a separate > program. > > There are both hardware and software synthesizers that run in both Linux and > Windows, but none of them are free. There are free software synthesizers > that run in Linux but I don't think they do in Windows. > Correction espeak (http://espeak.sf.net) is free (in both senses) and works > in linux or windows (for both platforms the espeak API can be used, or in > windows it can be used as a SAPI synth. Also in Linux it can be used either > by gnome-speech or speech-dispatcher). I also believe festival might be > possible to compile in windows as well as linux, but apps would need to use > festival directly in windows as it doesn't have any way to be used as a sapi > synth.
> There are no screen readers that run in both Windows and Linux. Several > commercial screen readers run in Windows. Several free and commercial screen > readers run in Linux but thus far there is not a very robust free screen > reader for Windows, though one or more are being developed. > > The market leader in Windows screen readers is JAWS > (www.freedommscientific.com) with a strong second (and loyal following) for > WindowEyes (www.gwmicro.com). The market leader for Linux is the free > Speakup; I don't remember the URL but the string Linux-speakup.org should be > good enough for a Google search and might even be accurate. All of these > support both speech and braille. > Speakup doesn't support braille, but works fine with brltty. Orca is a screen > reader for the gnome desktop in Linux, and may feel more like some of the > windows screen readers. > I hope that's enough to get you started and doesn't exceed the limits of my > knowledge too much. :-) > > Good luck, > _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
