Re: Can the Blind use Gnome?

[Jason White <jasonw ariel ucs unimelb edu au>]

Bill Haneman writes:
 > 
 > One think that you could look at is "gnome-speech", which is a
 > text-to-speech service front-end for GNOME which is used by the
 > gnopernicus screen reader (and other sample screen readers, etc.).  We
 > don't have a dectalk backend for it yet but I think a simple dectalk
 > backend should present no difficulty.

Another option would be to write a module that can run an Emacspeak
speech server as a sub-process. This would immediately provide support
for all speech synthesis systems for which Emacspeak servers exist,
including Dectalk.