From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:00:01 -0400 (EDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84he8lovtc.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <841xzphrr4.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <8465p0l4jp.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <200304281235.VAA11025@etlken.m17n.org> <84llxttfgi.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051648941 25684 80.91.224.249 (29 Apr 2003 20:42:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 20:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 29 22:42:16 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Abvc-0006g3-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:42:16 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19Ac4Q-0005fV-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:51:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Absd-0008Jd-08 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:39:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Abr8-0006SI-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:37:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Abr0-0006Q3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:37:30 -0400 Original-Received: from megalith.rattlesnake.com ([140.186.114.245] helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AbqI-000676-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:36:47 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:00:01 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: <84llxttfgi.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@gmx.net) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13559 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13559 By the way, SergeyFleytin just posted a message to the Emacspeak mailing list that he is using a version of Emacspeak that converts Cyrillic text to spoken Russian. I don't know how good this is, nor its licenses (I asked him), but you might want to listen as well as read Russian. The FTP site is: ftp://ftp.rakurs.spb.ru/pub/Goga/ Sergey says I am using emacspeak with a so called 'multilingual server'. It was written by one of the Russian programmers, who also wrote a Russian tts engine for it. This server uses freephone&mbrola for English and ru_tts for Russian. Moreover, that person also produced a special installation cd-rom called 'slackspeak'. On that disk one would find pre-installed, ready to use, speech-enabled linux system. It uses emacspeak as a speech interface and uses only software synth for output. If the system fails to recognize your sound card, the output is directed to the pc-speaker. You can either boot directly from that cd or start it from dos promt. -- Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.teak.cc bob@rattlesnake.com