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+# Speak.activity
+# A simple front end to the espeak text-to-speech engine on the XO laptop
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2008  Joshua Minor
+# This file is part of Speak.activity
+#
+# Parts of Speak.activity are based on code from Measure.activity
+# Copyright (C) 2007  Arjun Sarwal - arjun@laptop.org
+# 
+#     Speak.activity 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 3 of the License, or
+#     (at your option) any later version.
+# 
+#     Foobar 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 Foobar.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+
+import subprocess
+import re
+
+class Voice:
+    def __init__(self, language, gender, name):
+        self.language = language
+        self.gender = gender
+        self.name = name
+
+        friendlyname = name
+        friendlyname = friendlyname.replace('-test','')
+        friendlyname = friendlyname.replace('_test','')
+        friendlyname = friendlyname.replace('en-','')
+        friendlyname = friendlyname.replace('english-wisper','whisper')
+        friendlyname = friendlyname.capitalize()
+        self.friendlyname = friendlyname
+
+    
+def allVoices():
+    voices = {}
+    result = subprocess.Popen(["espeak", "--voices"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
+    for line in result.split('\n'):
+        m = re.match(r'\s*\d+\s+([\w-]+)\s+([MF])\s+([\w_-]+)\s+(.+)', line)
+        if m:
+            language, gender, name, stuff = m.groups()
+            if stuff.startswith('mb/') or name in ('en-rhotic','english_rp','english_wmids'):
+                # these voices don't produce sound
+                continue
+            voice = Voice(language, gender, name)
+            voices[voice.friendlyname] = voice
+    return voices
+