Re: [orca-list] external synthesizer (was code review)

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

Why do you say that screen readers make Python difficult to use because 
of it's indentation enforcement? I've been a programmer for over 20 
years, and whether I'm programming in C, Java, PERL or Python, the 
coding guidelines I've followed have always required the accurate use of 
indentation. I've never found this to be a problem with screen readers 
and editors, including IBM's Screen Reader and Screen Reader/2, JAWS, 
Orca and Emacspeak.

On 01/05/2014 09:03 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
> > > I'm not really a python fan, mostly because of it's indentation
> > > needs, and
> > > screen readers make this task complicated.
> > > But, I was wondering if anyone here knows how much trouble it would
> > > be to
> > > make orca support new synths.  I built my own external synth, and
> > > would like
> > > to use it instead of the built-in horribly inadequate voices provided
> > > with
> > > the default orca release.  This would do two things for me.  First, it'd
> > > give me dectalk speech, and second, it would free up memory used by the
> > > software synth, leaving more memory for other apps.  This is especially
> > > useful for those machines with low memory already, since software speech
> > > tends to eat both cpu and memory in large amounts.  Offloading the
> > > speech to
> > > an external synth would solve this nicely.  It's usb, and is built from
> > > parts available from http://parallax.com, it cost around $100 or so
> > > to build
> > > it depending on how fancy/complicated you want the final product to
> > > be.  I'd
> > > thought about incorporating it into speakup as well, but I've not dug
> > > into
> > > what that would take just yet.  So, if anyone has any suggestions on
> > > where
> > > to look, or how to proceed with this project, I'd sure appreciate it.
> >
> >
> >
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