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Re: Development of a server for emacspeak for brazilian portuguese
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- Subject: Re: Development of a server for emacspeak for brazilian portuguese
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- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:01:40 -0800
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Title:
Marcelo,
I congratulate you on your decision to come back from the dark side
( windoze! ). I think the trip will be fruitful for you and your
country.
Speaking computers has been a back burner issue for me, that is, I
have
been following the new groups but have not done any real active
programming
yet.
I would be very happy to help you in any way I can. One of my
projects,
on the back burner, is a bootable Linux CD with Emacspeak as the default
interface. I have all the pieces but I am currently working on another
project and very close to completing it.
I would like to follow your efforts. Have you considered start a
local
mailing list just for you project?? Also, what kind of resources do you
have available to the project?? I was thinking about a Soekris SBC with
a USB Keypad or Keyboard and sound card. They are a little on the
pricey
side but the do run on 12VDC. Which could be handy for remote areas
( Like mine ). I am assuming you will not be using a local monitor?
Are
you going to network these devices together or will they be standalone?
Lots of questions. Have you written a project plan? Do you have a
web
site for this project? How much Linux experience do you have available?
How can I help??
William Estrada
Marcelo Lima wrote:
Hi all,
I am a software developer working for a government bureau in
Brazil. I am working in a projetct to develop a speech synthesizer for
Linux, and other unix systems, for the brazilian portuguese. This
project is a goal of the brazilian government to improve digital
inclusion, giving to the visually impaired acces to the public
services. The project began because the objective of the brazilian
government of promoting and migrating all the public systems and
government's bureau to free software. One of our goals is to release
some tool in Linux with speech feedback. The chosen tool is the
Emacspeak because the Emacspeak is the most common tool used by the
visually impaired on Linux in Brazil. Therefore, we need to make our
speech synthesizer work with Emacspeak. I need to develop a speech
server for Emacspeak but I didn't find any documentation about the
development of such software or any API. I would like your help abou
wath I need to make my synthesizer work with Emacspeak, the components
I need to develop... or a path to follow. Finishing this, the softwares
will be release to the community and used to create a Linux
distribution specially to visually impaired. Please, help me with some
documentation or any other thing that you could help me.
Sincerely.
Marcelo Pires B. Lima
System analyst - SERPRO - Brazil
+55 (21) 2159-3833