Add text to speech capability to text backend

Too much code stolen from Read EText activity

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions

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+# Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 James D. Simmons
+# Copyright (C) 2009 Aleksey S. Lim
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+
+import logging
+
+_logger = logging.getLogger('read-etexts-activity')
+
+supported = True
+
+try:
+    import gst
+    gst.element_factory_make('espeak')
+    from speech_gst import *
+    _logger.info('use gst-plugins-espeak')
+except Exception, e:
+    _logger.info('disable gst-plugins-espeak: %s' % e)
+    try:
+        from speech_dispatcher import *
+        _logger.info('use speech-dispatcher')
+    except Exception, e:
+        supported = False
+        _logger.info('disable speech: %s' % e)
+
+voice = None
+pitch = 0
+rate = 0
+
+highlight_cb = None
+reset_cb = None