festival/text to speech

Will H. Backman whb at ceimaine.org
Fri Mar 4 18:12:55 UTC 2005


Gnopernicus is the package that does screen reading and magnification
for the Gnome desktop.  It usually uses Festival for the text to speech.
It will only work well for recent GTK+ apps, and in general is not as
good as Jaws or ZoomText on Windows.  Many recent applications do not
include the text hints that a screen reader needs.

For me, Firefox and OpenOffice are slient.  I think this is because they
are not using native GTK, but use their own cross-platform stuff.


-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Ben Edwards
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 12:42 PM
To: Lee Colleton; Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
Subject: Re: festival/text to speech

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:18:57 -0800, Lee Colleton <lee.colleton at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:42:59 +0000, Ben Edwards <funkytwig at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > Have been trying to work out how to do text to speach in Firefox and
> > Openoffice.  Had a look in the archive and the website but no luck.
> > Also did a bit of googeling.
> >
> > Have installed the gnome text to speaxh stuff and festival but not
> > really sure how to use it.  Any pointers would be apreciated.
> >
> > Ben
> 
> festival can be invoked from the command line with the option --tts
> which will read from stdin and synthesize an output.
> 
>   echo "Hello, World!" | festival --tts
> 
> so if you wanted to read a webpage you would have to select the text
> you want to read and then echo it into festival
> 
>   echo "Google
> >
> > Web    Images    Groups    News    Froogle    LocalNew!    more >
> >
> >   Advanced Search
> >   Preferences
> >   Language Tools
> >
> >
> > Advertising Programs - Business Solutions - About Google
> >
> > (c)2005 Google - Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages" | festival --tts
> 
> Ya dig?  Well, I hope that helps.

Fraid it douse not help mutch.  I am looking for solutions for visualy
impared people/dyslexics.  Windows has stuff built in whitch is kind
of OK and there are some fairly good propietory screen readers etc. 
>From what I can se Linux is a bit of a non starter on this fromt.

I realy need something that integrates properly with openoffice/firefox.

Ben

> Lee Colleton
> 


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