Hi. I can use festival, flite, or software DECtalk through speech-dispatcher as my synth with speakup. Yasr has been able to use flite through eflite for over a year. You can also use DECtalk software with yasr. DECtalk software speech costs $50 U.S. Hope this helps. Kenny On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 02:31:09PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Is there any software speech generation engine yet that can be > used in a Linux console? > > I experimented with festival a bit and found it to be > promising but I haven't done much more than cat text files in to it > and listen to the output. > > My usual method of access which works extremely well, but > which is not very elegant by today's standards is to use an old P.C. > with a DOS screen reader I wrote in 8086 assembler. The P.C. runs > Kermit and connects via RS-232 cable to a serial port on the Linux > box. The Linux box does the heavy lifting while the old P.C. is > nothing more than a talking terminal. > > It may be good to keep such a system around if you tinker with > stuff like I do, but one day, we should be able to have a > self-contained system that doesn't need expensive add-on hardware and > makes use of the existing sound card to talk to us. > > That would be especially nice for laptops where space is at a > premium and multiple serial ports are hard to come by. > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list