Re: [BRLTTY] issues with the espeak speech driver

2016-05-30 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by kendell clark on 2016/05/30 at 02:08 -0500] >Would it be possible to have brltty use the system locale to determine the >espeak voice to use? For example, if the system were set to US english, it >would use the us english voice to speak? That's about all the customization I >ne

Re: [BRLTTY] issues with the espeak speech driver

2016-05-30 Thread Jason White
kendell clark wrote: > That's about all the customization I need, that way if a user changes > the system language brltty would automatically switch over to that > language. My main problem right now is that brltty isn't speaking the > log in screen or typed characters, or indeed anything after it

Re: [BRLTTY] issues with the espeak speech driver

2016-05-30 Thread kendell clark
hi Actually, I'm not sure what happened. It just started speaking. The problem is that the espeak voice it's using isn't naturally monotonic. It's using the default voice, which is more expressive than brltty is making it. But that might just be a matter of supplying the right parameters to it. Wou

Re: [BRLTTY] issues with the espeak speech driver

2016-05-29 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by kendell clark on 2016/05/30 at 00:53 -0500] >I'm getting somewhere in my quest to integrate brltty into the sonar >linux distro. It now speaks on the live image. What did you do to get that far? >The problem is, the speech is very monotone, Maybe that's just a matter of getti