Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Jan 2006 13:01 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Coming home after a hard day at work after staring at the monitor continuously for hours on end, the last thing I want to do many days is sit in front of the computer again. At times though, I have this urge to grab a book and do some light reading but often the strain on my eyes dissuades me in pursuing this thought any further. This is where this very nice utility called Festival comes into the picture. Festival is a text-to-speech synthesiser developed by the Centre for Speech Technology Research at the University of Edinburgh. It is shipped with most Linux distributions and has been released under an X11-type licence allowing unrestricted commercial and non-commercial use alike."
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2006-01-25
While I understand what you are saying, I think they serve a different audience. gaim should support gnome-speech (I think it does, not sure though) and that goal should be worked torwards, but festival-gaim is targeting a different audience. gnome-speech needs to be entirely understandable and usable using the voice, while the entire point of gaim-festival is just to read the messages. gaim-festival just helps me know whats being said to me and if its important without opening the window back up... I don't want it describing the UI to me so I can use the program without seeing it, which something like gnome-speech would need to do with a blind person.