Re: Speech Dispatcher and audio

2009-11-17 Thread Gilles Casse
Hello, These steps will be followed: - isolate basic test cases, - start with a simple source code calling the PulseAudio API, if possible no other dependencies, - measure how this code behaves for each test, - optimize the code, and measure again. The measures will be done on several distros and

Re: Speech Dispatcher and audio

2009-11-16 Thread Gilles Casse
Hynek Hanke wrote: > Now we tend to think that any solution where the audio > is not output to kernel space directly from the synthesis > driver (like we do with ALSA) is not a possible way given > the current state of things. > > Of course you are welcome to cross check these results, > that woul

Gnome Accessibility and OpenMoko

2008-01-03 Thread Gilles Casse
Hello, Would you be interested in evaluating the feasibility of integrating the Gnome Accessibility Project in OpenMoko? We could perhaps join our efforts in a third party project hosted by projects.openmoko.org. Best regards, Gilles ___ gnome-access

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-21 Thread Gilles Casse
David Bolter wrote: > Gilles Casse wrote: >> Peter Parente wrote: >> >>> A custom navigation app could make use of >>> either for stepping through directions en route. >>> >> The Neo1973 (OpenMoko) is also another possible platform.

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-21 Thread Gilles Casse
Peter Parente wrote: > A custom navigation app could make use of > either for stepping through directions en route. The Neo1973 (OpenMoko) is also another possible platform. I have recently integrated on the Neo, Navit (navigation software) with speech feedback (Speech-dispatcher + espeak). The

Re: gnome-speech, and audio output, moving forward.

2007-10-16 Thread Gilles Casse
> Since Ubuntu is still looking at improving the desktop audio > stack, likely to be > pulseaudio, I think we really need to get speech output sorted out. > Hello, Just as example: under OpenMoko, the sound server is also PulseAudio, it provides the sound mixing capability instead of the Alsa dmi

Re: New versions of Espeak

2007-08-11 Thread Gilles Casse
Hello, Le samedi 09 juin 2007 à 21:45 +0200, Gilles Casse a écrit : > Jacob Schmude wrote: > > I've just upgraded Espeak from 1.22 to 1.26 and the Espeak gnome > > speech driver has stopped functioning for me. > > This is probably related to the list of languages whi

Re: New versions of Espeak

2007-06-09 Thread Gilles Casse
Jacob Schmude wrote: > I've just upgraded Espeak from 1.22 to 1.26 and the Espeak gnome > speech driver has stopped functioning for me. This is probably related to the list of languages which is longer now. I will try to continue to dig this issue. At the moment, here is a short fix: can you p

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-04 Thread Gilles Casse
Le lundi 04 juin 2007 à 01:08 -0400, Jacob Beauregard a écrit : > The problem to drawing interest to > accessibility would be to promote technology in a sense that it will not only > help disabled users, but also be something that anyone would use. > Yes, I share this idea also. It would be gr

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-02 Thread Gilles Casse
Aditya Kumar Pandey wrote: > I tried to get ibm-tts but just couldn't get it. > Hello, Viavoice is provided in Voxin a low cost product compliant with Ubuntu Feisty or Debian Etch. http://voxin.oralux.net Best regards, Gilles -- Oralux.org http://association.oralux.org

OpenMoko

2007-03-27 Thread Gilles Casse
Hello, OpenMoko is a free software platform for the future Neo 1973 phone. This GNU/Linux phone has no keyboard but a touch screen. The GUI applications are based on GTK+. What is your opinion please about the possible accessibility of such a platform? Could you cooperate to the current thread

Re: Chinese language

2007-01-21 Thread Gilles Casse
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > It still couldn't speak Chinese. How to solve this problem? Thank you! > > This mail is also posted to the gnome-accessibility mailing list. Bug 398916 concerns the IBM TTS gnome-speech driver in Chinese language: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398

Re: building gnome-speech for dectalk and swift voices

2007-01-03 Thread Gilles Casse
Hello, You could check that the TTS libraries are found by your system. For example, here, the ldconfig command finds the DECtalk software's libraries. This command line: ldconfig -p | grep libtts returns: libtts_us.so (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/libtts_us.so libtts_fr.so (libc6

Re: Ubuntu Accessability

2006-10-18 Thread Gilles Casse
Kenny Hitt writes: > Do you have a link to buy DECtalk? The link I used no longer works. I > tried just going to the Fonix web site, but couldn't find a link to > purchase the RTK for Linux. > Yes it is difficult to get the info if the web browser is not javascript capable. Anyway here ar