TTS Synthesis: D and vibe.d in Action

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Hi,

Just to inform you that we successfully use D and vibe.d for two 
things:

1. an NVDA[1] screen reader plugin:

http://www.abair.ie/nvda/

It is still version 0.6 beta but it is already being used by 
visually impaired people.

2. a web version of the text-to-speech synthesizer that is now 
used on the website of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the 
Gaeltacht in Ireland:

http://www.ahg.gov.ie/ga/ [2]

The web service is based on vibe.d and will be extended for more 
use cases (for example on the fly synthesis in the "cloud"). It 
is also still beta. The system works quite fast (the delay is due 
to a timeout in the JS, i.e. it doesn't send the request 
immediately - which will be optional in future versions).

[1] http://www.nvaccess.org/
[2] It's the green bubble that says "abair.ie" at the bottom of 
the page, once you click on it you'll see some controls, press on 
the bubble that says "a" to activate it. It will read out 
whatever is under the cursor (after a short delay which is in the 
JS).