[laptop-accessibility] Screen reader software -- any progress?

[Hemant Goyal]

Brad,

Maybe we should coordinate our efforts. We are presently working to bring
speech synthesis capabilities on the XO.

We have made significant progress and are documenting our results here :
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Screen_Reader [It is slightly outdated wrt the
DBUS speech server, as we are planning to dump that approach and instead use
speech-dispatcher]

At present Assim Deodia is working to improve the eSpeak phoneme data for
better voice quality/output on the XO, and I am working on integrating
speech-dispatcher in the XO as a means of providing a simple to use speech
synthesis api.

I have opened a Ticket which might interest you :
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6284

Best,
Hemant

This posting is very new and, at the moment, consists only of a block
> diagram of the approach I am proposing.  I have several pages of narrative
> in the works at the moment and I am hoping to post the first version of it
> to the Free Speech wiki article sometime this weekend.  In the meantime,
> please check out the links in the "See also" section of the article.  Those
> linked-to articles contain links to other speech-related efforts currently
> underway for the XO (for example, eSpeak).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brad
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