;;; flite.el --- Emacspeak FLite
;;; $Id: flite-voices.el 5798 2008-08-22 17:35:01Z tv.raman.tv $
;;; $Author: tv.raman.tv $
;;; Description:  FLite interface 
;;; Keywords: Emacspeak,  Audio Desktop FLite
;;{{{  LCD Archive entry:

;;; LCD Archive Entry:
;;; emacspeak| T. V. Raman |raman@cs.cornell.edu
;;; A speech interface to Emacs |
;;; $Date: 2008-07-06 10:18:30 -0700 (Sun, 06 Jul 2008) $ |
;;;  $Revision: 4532 $ |
;;; Location undetermined
;;;

;;}}}
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;;{{{  introduction

;;; defines interactive command tts-flite that launches eflite 
;;; this will be updated to use the FLite TCL server when that is complete.
;;; http://sf.net/projects/eflite
;;; as the tts server.
;;; When and if eflite becomes capable of voice locking,
;;; this file should provide code similar to  outloud-voices.el

;;}}}
;;{{{  Required modules

(require 'cl)
(declaim  (optimize  (safety 0) (speed 3)))
(require 'custom)

;;}}}
;;;###autoload
;;{{{  launch eflite 
;;;###autoload
(defun tts-eflite ()
  "Use eflite TTS server."
  (interactive)
  (let ((dtk-program "eflite"))
    (tts-restart)
    (message "This is Emacspeak! ")))

(defun flite-configure-tts ()
  (dectalk-configure-tts)
  (dtk-unicode-update-untouched-charsets '(ascii latin-iso8859-1 eight-bit-graphic)))

;;}}}

(provide 'flite-voices)
;;{{{ end of file

;;; local variables:
;;; folded-file: t
;;; byte-compile-dynamic: t
;;; end:

;;}}}