PerlSpeak version 0.01
======================
  PerlSpeak - Perl Module for text to speach with festival or cepstral

  PerlSpeak.pm is Perl Module for text to speach with festival or cepstral.
  One of these must be installed on your system in order for PerlSpeak.
  Plans to include other tts systems in future releases.
  PerlSpeak.pm was developed to use in the PerlSpeak system for blind linux users.
  More information can be found at the authors website http://www.joekamphaus.net

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  POSIX qw(:termios_h)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2007 by Joe Kamphaus

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.


HOW TO USE
  #!/usr/bin/perl

  use PerlSpeak;
  
  my $ps = PerlSpeak->new();
  
  # Set text to speach system "festival" is the default
  $ps->{tts_engine} = "festival"; # or cepstrel 
  
  # Speaking file selectors
  my $file = $ps->filepicker($ENV{HOME}); # Returns a file.
  my $dir = $ps->dirpicker($ENV{HOME}); # Returns a directory.
  
  $ps->say("Hello World!"); # The computer talks.

  # Returns the next character typed on the keyboard
  # May take 2 or 3 calls for escape sequences.
  print $ps->getch(); 

  # Make some sub refs to pass to menu  
  my $email = sub {
	print "Email\n";
  };
  my $internet = sub {
	print "Internet\n";
  };
  my $docs = sub {
	print "Documents\n"
  };
  my $mp3 = sub {
	print "MP3\n";	
  };
  my $cdaudio = sub {
	print "CD Audio\n"
  };
  my $help = sub {
	print "Browse Help\n"
  };

  # menu is a talking menu
  # Pass menu a hash of "text to speak" => $callback pairs
  $ps->menu(
	"E-mail Menu" => $email,
	"Internet Menu" => $internet,
	"Documents Menu" => $docs,
	"M P 3 audio" => $mp3,
	"C D audio" => $cdaudio,
	"Browse help files" => $help,
  };