#6284 NORM Never A: inclusion of speech-dispatcher for speech synthesis capabilities on the XO

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#6284: inclusion of speech-dispatcher for speech synthesis capabilities on the XO
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 Reporter:  hemantg                              |       Owner:  dgilmore      
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  build-system                         |     Version:                
 Keywords:  speech-dispatcher, speech synthesis  |    Verified:  0             
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 speech-dispatcher is a speech server that provides a client-server model
 for speech synthesis.

 It interfaces with the espeak TTS engine which is already bundled on the
 XO.

 '''Activities that need/can use the speech-dispatcher:'''

 1]A simple screen reader for sugar environment
 [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Screen_Reader]

 2]speak activity [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speak]

 3]talk n type [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TalknType]

 4]orca (for improving accessibility whenever it is ported to the XO) -
 speech-dispatcher as a speech synthesis driver is supported by orca


 '''Speech Dispatcher project page''' : http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd

 '''Speech Dispatcher CVS Snapsho'''t :
 http://cvs.freebsoft.org/repository/speechd/

 '''Speech Dispatcher Debian Packages and Source Code''' :
 http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/

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