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

[Fernando Botelho]

Hey Pierre,


Do you know anyone who might be able and interested in doing this. If an 
award with some nice visibility would be interesting to someone who is 
able to pull this off, I will go looking for support to help with that. 
I just cannot help with the technical stuff.


For me, something that would be award-worthy, would be a bash script 
which you could run inside termux, which would install everything, 
including eSpeak-NG plus a simplified version of Speech-Dispatcher, 
which would leave termux ready to go for someone blind.


Anybody interested, please get in touch with me, so we can talk. I need 
to understand how much work we are talking about.


Fernando



On 11/04/2017 10:47 AM, Pierre Lorenzon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> From: Fernando Botelho <Fernando.Botelho at F123.org>
> 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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