Re: [tuxdroid-user] Speech synthesis use examples

[David B. <da...@ja...>]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:20:42 +0100, Florent THIERY <ft...@gm...>  
wrote:

> Sorry to continue spamming (just tell me if it's a nuisance), but it
> allows me to keep track of the interesting info i find, and share it.

Please do continue so we can follow too.

>
>> From http://www.lirc.org/software.html
>
> irmenu : IrMenu is a program that allows to navigate a text menu using
> a remote control. Prompts are "displayed", that is, spoken, using your
> favorite text-to-speech program, such as IBM ViaVoice or festival.

Rémi did that for skype in the past, it was reading the contacts, moving  
through them with the wings and calling with the head button.

>
> Which brings me to the question: can we use lirc with tux? My guess
> is: not supported, yet, but coming...

That's another topic but that would be great. I'll probably never have  
time for this but if we could find someone with some lirc knowledge, it  
should be nice to have such a driver for our remote as we immediatey have  
support for a bunch of applications.