"Krishnakant Ramesh Mane" <krmane@rediffmail.com> writes: > does any one know a software synthesizer that can be freely downloaded > for linux? Mbrola, Festival, Festival lite > And if so does it work with speakup or jupiter audio system? I don't know about Jupiter, but speakup can't be used with software synthesizers right now. That's mainly because speakup is part of the kernel, and it isn't to easy/nice to call user-space applications from within the kernel. Speakup would infact need a a speech synthesizer written as a kernel module. > I know IBM outloud but I don't know weather it works with speakup. No, it doesn't. And if I gather the situation right, it's already illegal to use IBM ViaVoice, the license ended somewhere around 2001. > And does speakup support The GUI of linux with support to > applications like ABI word etc. No, speakup is just for the linux console, no X support. It wouldn't make much sense anyway to write a screen reader for X windows as a kernel driver. -- CYa, Mario