Dummy speechd-el output driver possibly for running speechd-el inside emacs on android

[Pierre Lorenzon]

Hi,

From: Fernando Botelho <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Dummy speechd-el output driver possibly for running speechd-el 
inside emacs on android
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 19:12:15 -0200

> Hello Peter,
> 
> I am also interested in Termux and the possibilities it opens
> for low-cost computing for the blind.
> 
> Wouldn't a simplified Speech-Dispatcher be a better approach,

  Better i don't know, but an approach surely ! Anyway if it is
  not possible to have multitrhead processes with termux I
  suspect that it simply means to completely reimplement
  speech-dispatcher : or some other scheduler !

  Pierre 


> making the resulting speech server useful for both Emacs and
> Fenrir users?
> 
> Apologies if it is a stupid question. I am not a developer.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Fernando
> 
> 
> On 11/01/2017 06:15 PM, Peter V?gner wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I know speechd-el is not in rapid development for a few years
>> now however the more I use it the more I like what I can do
>> with emacs.
>> For a few months I'm playing with termux on android. It's
>> possible to run a lot of linux apps on termux for android
>> including emacs. It's even straightforward to install it
>> without rooting or other tricks.
>> There is also a way to make linux apps to play sound through
>> libpulse running on termux and another app directly on the
>> device.
>> Given all this I would like to try getting speechd-el working
>> with such a setup.
>> So I do have emacs, I do have speechd-el, I do have espeak
>> built against libpulse, however the glue between speechd-el and
>> espeak is missing. I can't build speech-dispatcher on termux
>> because android pthreads support is too limited for
>> speech-dispatcher to build there.
>> Since speechd-el has an API that more output drivers can be
>> running at the same time or even independently of each other I
>> think it might be more viable than fighting pthreads on android
>> trying to create a kind of very simple output driver for
>> speechd-el.
>> I wish it to either interface directly with espeak running on
>> termux or there is even termux specific API that exposes native
>> android TTS to apps running on termux.
>>
>> However I don't know elisp besides some little bits I have
>> understood when editing emacs configuration and I don't think I
>> might be able to move forward withis idea anytime soon.
>> So my question is: might anyone else be interested in trying to
>> make this working?
>> Is there somewhere such a minimalist speechd-el output driver
>> perhaps during the development you were using it for testing,
>> for logging or similar we can get more inspiration from?
>>
>> What do you guys users as well as developers think about this?
>>
>> Sorry for taking your time and thanks for your hints.
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
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