[BRLTTY] Windows support

[Michael Whapples]

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:54 +0100, Bruno Gonzalez wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:22:10 +0100, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com>  
> wrote:
> > If you mean by TTS systems the actual TTS engine, brltty isn't that. As
> > far as things go with actual TTS engines, I would say espeak
> 
> Ok, thanks for clearing that up. I'm no expert in TTS or screen readers  
> terminology :-)
> 
> I've reviewed about 15 software packages. Out of those, only 2 have passed  
> my list of requirements (open sourceness, supported languages, etc.): they  
> are espeak and festival, which you guys seem to consider good candidates  
> too. BRLTTY was the last one in my review list.
> 
> My intention is to feed the library with plain text. The task of figuring  
> out what text to provide would be on my side.
> 
>  From what i read, it looks like BRLTTY is a screen reader... but does it  
> include a syntethizer that i may be able to use directly? Or do you think  
> i'd better go for espeak/festival instead?
> I would say espeak or festival (personally I would say espeak, but others may disagree). I don't think there is any way to send text to the speech part of brltty, I think the API only relates to the braille part, and if it was braille support you want to add then brltty might be a good candidate.
> Thanks for all the useful replies!
>