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Eureka!! I got TextAloud to work in WINE!! on Ubuntu...

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2008-02-21 01:18:05

Description: TextAloud working atop Wine in Ubuntu. Note Wine is a windows replacement, it doesn't emulate a machine and has running windows on it. It actually implements the API that Windows implements to (More) TextAloud working atop Wine in Ubuntu. Note Wine is a windows replacement, it doesn't emulate a machine and has running windows on it. It actually implements the API that Windows implements to allow applications to use Windows services. In Wine, however the services are implemented in Linux and Wine just translates the API calls from the programs running in wine to calls to its own code, and is even able to use existing Windows libraries to make certain programs, such as Textaloud, work in Wine. TextAloud is a popular speech synthesizer, useful for reading web content and text files. To get it on Wine, what I did basically was install Textaloud's installer (downloadable from the "NextUp" website). I had to instal a MSI package installer (via Wine-Doors installer), then I was able to install several of the free voice packages available on the "NextUp" website., One of those packages contain my favorite voice "Eddie", which is one of the best speech synthesizer packs I've found that can fluidly convert any text into understandable speech.. Most speech conversion, even the modern stuff, uses huge wave tables, like 600 megs, and don't sound nearly as fluid as the basic "Eddie" voice. The advantage of using TextAloud over other speech synthesizers is that it offers a firefox plugin that will permit textaloud to read content for you from any web page, and either speek it out or save it to a mp3 file. I use it so often when I don't want to read a page, that I was grasping for it when it wasn't available. So I determined that I had to get it working in Linux. I found a tutorial on getting Ventrillo to work on Wine, by searching for "sapi wine" in google. I followed the same tutorial that only specified some files to download and some things to install.. I then tried the textaloud program again and it passed through and got me to the interface. But it was giving me OLE errors if I tried to get it to read anything. Fiddling with a bit, I found out that the SAPI 4 voice will work, but not the SAPI 5. Big deall.. All I want is to use the Eddie voice to read pages.. I purchased a "English" SAPI 5 voice from one of the vendors through them, it was about 40 dollars, and given I had already configured Eddie to read text files it was tough to get the "Queens English" speaker to say the same things as fluidly. Textaloud has a feature for fixing pronunciation, you can either replace a strange sounding work with a phonetically hacked word, or you can use a regular expression to extract useful information from patterns and turn it into something the voice can more easily process. Like I have a regex pattern that takes words with different case letters (without spaces) and breaks them up into individual words with spaces. In some cases where the translator comes across a unit of measure like inches, I can have it search for patterns like a number followed by "in." and have that translate "in." to "inches" for that special case. The beauty of getting Windows programs to work in Wine, given that Wine stores windows application installs within the user's home directory, and not in the system directories, to replicate an entire install of Windows applications only requires copying that directory. This could look like pirating, but believe me, if you paid for the applications you should be able to backup your install for indefinate use. Microsoft and other companies are really not interested in people buying applications for indefinate use, that means that people will likely never pay for any future releases of the tool. To stimulate people into repurchasing applications, Microsoft releases a new operating system every 2-4 years whether it is needed or not. The direct result is a mass repurchase of software, that makes everyone and Microsoft richer. But makes consumers as a result poorer. The future of applications is to rent applications, and is what Microsoft has tried to do for a long time. We may not be able to rely on google if this fits into their business plan. I think it's rather safe just to use linux as nothing can really go away on linux. Wine certainly won't go away, and will just continue to mimic everything in windows to the point that purchasing Windows won't be required to use Windows software.. That sounds bad, but if you've considered how long Microsoft made consumers wait for technologies that were readily available 10 years ago on other platforms, it's much deserved. For example, while in Windows 98, users were forced to work with IRQ settings and DMA addressing, Amiga users were up and working with multimedia rich content and were not required to mess with dip switches or such.. Microsoft is only getting around to realizing something like the Amiga's in a internal OS their are coining as "Singularity".. To me it only seems like Java running on an Amiga, without and MMU. Once again Microsoft delivers yesterdays technology today. (Less)

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