[Emacspeak] Re: Emacspeak at the forefront of innovation yet again

[Lubos Pintes <lubos.pintes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What is "Mame"? Never heard about it.

Dňa 9. 10. 2021 o 3:18 Devin Prater via Emacspeak napísal(a):
> I wonder if someone could make a speech server that interfaces with an 
> emulated DecTalk in Mame? It has DecTalk 1 and 2, but maybe the DTK 
> server could be revived for that? It'd also make it very crossplatform.
> Devin Prater
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> On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 8:10 PM Tim Cross via Emacspeak 
> <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org <mailto:emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org>> wrote:
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>     Devin Prater via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org
>     <mailto:emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org>> writes:
>
>     > True. One *can* do that with Emacspeak, but you'd probably have
>     to code it yourself. Oh and I did try Emacs with Emacspeak
>     > and Voxin on WSL 2, still too slow to be useful. Ah well.
>
>     The main thing needed for people to run Emacspeak under windows is for
>     someone to write a speech server for that platform which uses the
>     Windows TTS API (similar to what was done on the mac). I don't use
>     windows, but for someone familiar with that platform, it would not be
>     too difficult (I have written speech servers for other TTS engines
>     under
>     Linux in the past and it wasn't that hard). Not being familiar
>     with the
>     Windows platform, I'm not sure what language would be best for the
>     interface (i.e. Tcl for Linux, Python for Mac, ? for Windows). Perhaps
>     Powershell could be used (though, have to say when I've been
>     required to
>     use it, I find it a very odd language) - it would just need to be
>     something which made it easy to interface with the Windows TTS API.
>
>     I suspect it will be a while before WSL is up to the task. My small
>     amount of experience with WSL has been that it is very slow when
>     interfacing with devices like NIC, sound hardware and graphics. In
>     general, it feels like a somewhat primitive virtual environment
>     compared
>     to other VMs I've used.
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