Oralux repository

[Gilles Casse]

Hello Henrik,

Thank you for your answer.

This repository can help for example to install Multispeech as offered
in the Oralux CD. The package is named multispeech-oralux .

Multispeech is the multilingual speech server for Emacspeak written by
Igor B. Poretsky. 

This speech server requires Emacspeak 24 offered in Debian testing:
http://packages.debian.org/testing/editors/emacspeak

Igor originally proposed an automatic Russian/English detection
embedded in Multispeech itself. This feature is not offered with the
others languages. 

Our language switching support for Emacspeak using Multispeech or IBM
TTS is quite basic at the moment: the user holds a function key for
switching to the next language. We hope if time allows to associate a
language by buffer. If I remember well speechd-el proposes already
this feature. I realize once more how the accessibility technologies
are varied, and this is good for the users. 

It would be also quite interesting to be able to take in account the
lang attribute when reading a web page. 

I guess that these features have their analogy in Orca or LSR.

Best regards,

Gilles


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