[mythtv] Speech enabled MythTV

[Cory Hamma]

Thanks for all your input!

I've ordered a TV tuner to allow testing, and I'm going to install 
mythtv to get a really good feel of the interface.  It would be ideal if 
the additions I have planned could be integrated in a way so that mythtv 
checks during start-up for a speech synthesizer, and doesn't bother 
speaking if one is not found.

My final goal is to have a "controlled" environment for a mythtv 
distribution.  I don't know exactly if the code is ready for this -- ie 
the guide sync works pretty reliably, etc.  However, I hope that it will 
be in the future.  If I can control the hardware being used for mythtv 
by using a hardware-software "bundle" and also manage to create an 
automatic "disk dupe" installation CD (or CD set) to automatically 
format the drive and dump complete filesystems, I think this could be a 
reality.  Most of the changes that are going on seem to be either 
reliability issues with new hardware or requests for new features, so 
hopefully this version would at least provide a start.  In the future, I 
could probably find a couple of vendors willing to ship "talking" mythtv 
boxes, preinstalled, with rescue CD, for less than $500, especially if 
hardware prices keep shooting down.

Other issues such as IP address, dialup, etc. will probably resolve 
themselves along the way.

-Cory Hamma

Mark Edwards wrote:

>I understand the goal here - I was just adding my $0.02 worth to the
>conversation...
>and to reiterate the point, I think integrating something like Festival
>would be a fairly trivial addition, although the plugin structure of MythTV
>would require each part of the code to be modified. You won't be able to
>'plug-in' a speech unit with the current architecture.
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <hpoley at dds.nl>
>To: "Development of mythtv" <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:01 AM
>Subject: Re: [mythtv] Speech enabled MythTV
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