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- From: "T. V. Raman" <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:01:06 -0700
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At the end of the day, you might be better off implementing an
Emacspeak TTS server for the native TTS engine that comes on the
Mac. I'm sure they have C apis -- and binding those into TCL and
writing a tcl script a la outloud might be easier than you might fear.
>>>>> "Yvonne" == Yvonne Thomson <yvonne@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Yvonne> Well, I managed to get emacspeak to find it ok,
Yvonne> admittedly it was a hack, but it did work. I simply
Yvonne> created a dummy server that did nothing, and set
Yvonne> emacspeak to remote connect to the server as soon as
Yvonne> it started.
Yvonne>
Yvonne> I have no idea, though, why this just didn't work on
Yvonne> os x. It was either too slow, or there was something
Yvonne> weird going on with the buffering, because it just
Yvonne> couldn't read large blocks of text. I don't really
Yvonne> have any more ideas about what to try next, so for
Yvonne> now I'm going to duel boot this Mac so I don't have
Yvonne> to carry two laptops around everywhere.
Yvonne>
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