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    Kurdish screen reader

    Hi,
    First of all, sorry for writing in English. I want to work with a native Kurdish speaker and the developer of the eSpeak screen reader to assist those Kurdish speakers that are visually impaired. If anyone has further questions to ask, simply reply to this thread.

    All help will be appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Alex A.

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    Re: Kurdish screen reader

    Hi Alex, great project. Can you give some more details?

    I don't know how screen readers really work, but Kurdish should be relatively easy to code, because the correlation between the written and the spoken Kurdish is very very close. There are practically no exceptions from the pronunciation rules.

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    Re: Kurdish screen reader

    Hi,
    Sorry, but I am in a rush. I will provide further details soon.

    I am in urgent need of a recording of some spoken Kurdish, something that has most of the sounds in it. Also the accompanying text stating the spelling of what you have said. Any other learning material such as pronounciation tables will be Appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Alex A.

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    Re: Kurdish screen reader

    Hi,

    there is a picture dictionary here: http://www.skolutveckling.se/vaxthus...rdkurdiska.htm

    You can click every word and listen to it. Unfortunately it's all flash, so it may be difficult to extract it. The pronunciation is quite good.

    There is a phonology of Kurdish in Wikipedia, but I cannot judge how accurate that is, because dialects may differ.

    Does this somehow help you, or do you need longer texts?

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    Re: Kurdish screen reader

    Hi,
    Thanks. I want to thank you for your help. I will forward this message to the developers at eSpeak. I will let you know what they require or if I need more information.

    For now, any more help will be appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Alex A.

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    Re: Kurdish screen reader

    Hi,

    I found a table that correlates the alphabet with the IPA phonemes. The actual Kurdish letters are in the leftmost column, the IPA-pronunciation in the fourth column. This should help a lot.

    If you (or the guys at espeak) just code these, I am sure that a well understandable result will come out of it very quickly.

    Me and the Ubuntu Kurdish team will be happy to help test further if you give us instructions on how to use test versions of espeak (which I just tried for the first time - English sounds nice).

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    Re: Kurdish screen reader

    Hi,
    I never even dreamed of such help. I am sure I can speak with the
    developers at eSpeak.

    This is my biggest program yet. As a volunteer techie and program
    supervisor at AWEBSIGHT, and it would be nothing if not for the help
    of my best friend who provided the inspiration of the program, the
    Kurdish Ubuntu team, everyone who has and will contribute to this
    forum, my contacts, and the people at eSpeak.
    Thanks,
    Alex A.
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    Re: Kurdish screen reader

    I have started a discussion thread at http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.p...orum_id=538922

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    Re: Kurdish screen reader

    Hi,
    The official project page is http://www.VisionMail.uni.cc/kurdish.html
    Thanks,
    Alex A.

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    Re: Kurdish screen reader

    Hi,
    This is a general question for you. Is there any one out there who is willing to fill the spot of speech wrapper programer? What needs to be done is writing an Applescript or Xcode wrapper to allow the popular Linux speech engine of eSpeak to work with Apple's Voiceover.

    ESpeak is written in C++.
    Any help will be appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Alex A.

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