I've not looked at espeak for dos, but I do seem to recall there was another dos screen reader called tiny talk. I don't recall if it came with source, but if the author of that program could be found, and if source is available, perhaps it could be added to the distro. It could use the pc speaker as well as sound cards (if I remember correctly) It's been a really long time since I've fiddled with tiny talk, (many many years) but since I've gotten permission to develop provox, I could try to implement something for wav files. I don't think it would be very usable, though it certainly would/could work in a pinch if nothing else was available. I don't (currently) have a pure dos machine to work on, though given another month or two, this may be fixed, (moving bites) and I can certainly look into this at that point. Paired with porting provox away from a86 (something I'm lothe to do for multiple reasons, not the least of which is that a86 is such an excellent product) I don't know how much work I can do on this, but I'll try to remember to look at it when I have something to work with later. Of course, if anyone else wants to work on it, feel free, I'm by no means monopolizing provox, anyone who wants to can work with it. (hmm, that reminds me, I probably should get it posted on sourceforge just for completness). Anyway, generation of wav files for speech is a slow process, I doubt it would work as well as synthetic speech, but it's worth checking into anyhow, perhaps with today's faster processors, it may not be as slow and unresponsive as it used to be.
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