Today I finished pType 1.0c. pType is a new application I wrote for my daughter -and in fact all severly disabled children who learn to write and can't speak. It's an on-screen keyboard with speech-synthesis.
It unfortunately only runs on Win32. That's because it uses Win32::MSAgent (for speech-synthesis) and Win32::API for a DLL it uses to communicate with the Adremo electric wheelchair. I added multi-linguality and full configurability with this version, and made a compiled version available for download on my website with a nice installer around it so it installs very easy on all kinds of Win32 systems.
The reason why I'm using Win32::MSAgent for speechsynthesis is simple: it's the only free Text To Speech system that offers so many different languages - and in fact the only one offering proper Dutch language support.
The application shows how pVoice 2.0 is going to be: configurable, user-friendly and full-featured...
back to work on pVoice then...
As a nice side-effect, you are sharing a lot of your skills and knowledge on the wxPerl mailing list. Your talk at YAPC::Europe on wxPerl was great too.
Could you make some screenshots of the program available? I'd like to see what it looks like--I don't think I will install it as I don't really have a need for the program.
