Re: Talking daisy reader.

[Thomas Ward <slingshooter valkyrie net>]

Hi, Bill. Thanks, for the information. I was totally unaware that 
gnome-speech could be used by java applications as well as those in C/C++.
Is there any documentation on this yet or is it still play it by ear?

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Bill Haneman wrote:

> Hi Thomas:
> 
> Sorry for not replying sooner, I was out of town for a week.
> 
> You mention two possibilities: using C/C++ with gnome-speech, or
> Java with JSAPI.  However you can write to gnome-speech from Java 
> also, and in fact the Java client bindings to gnome-speech's
> Bonobo-based API are much prettier than the C bindings and C++ bindings.
> 
> If you used gnome-speech, there is less likelihood of conflict between
> the Daisy reader and other voice clients on the desktop, since gnome-speech
> is a service API specifically designed to support multiple simultaneous
> clients.
> 
> Personally I think writing this in Java using gnome-speech as the speech 
> back-end would be the easiest and cleanest approach.  
> 
> best regards,
> 
> -Bill
> 
> Peter Korn wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Thomas,
> > 
> > I think it really depends upon where you want to deploy your Daisy reader.
> > If you only want to see it running on desktop machines in a GNOME
> > environment, then absolutely use gnome-speech.  On the other hand, looking
> > forward to the next two generations of PDA and cell phones, I would expect
> > that we might start seeing phones running J2SE and support the Java Speech
> > API and FreeTTS.
> > 
> > Are you in touch with George Kershner on this Daisy project you're
> > considering doing?  If not, I encourage you to contact him and let him know
> > what you're thinking.
> > 
> > Either way you go, I'm delighted to hear you're looking into this.  It'd be
> > very nice to have a Daisy reader on the UNIX desktop.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Peter Korn
> > Sun Accessibility team
> > 
> > > Hi, list. I'm a little at an impass how  I should proceed with a couple
> > > of projects I've been conciddering writing. I've been thinking about
> > > writing a talking daisy reader for gnome, and it has to be self voicing.
> > > I would like to either use C++ with the gnome-speech libraries, or use
> > > Java with  JSAPI, and the FreeTTS synthesizor.
> > > Any suggestions one which might be the better way to go? I have
> > > gnome-speech  built installed, and working, but no api documentation how
> > > to develope with it which sort of puts me at a disadvantage.
> > > If I had my choice per say I'd like to build the app in C/C++ and the
> > > gnome-speech api, but I could in theory go either way.
> > > With so many electronic books  being put out by RFBND, NLS, Book Share,
> > > etc in the daisy 2 and 3 for mats I was hoping to put my free time into
> > > building a reader which would run under Gnome which could read these
> > > electronic text books.
> > > Thanks, for any suggestions.
> > >
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