Thanks, Bruce. That's a better url. Both the Tripletalk and the new DEC Talk are Axsol products. Both work with Speakup, but only via the serial connector. Bailey, Bruce writes: > You might consider the newish DecTalk USB. I haven't gotten my hands on one, but it is the only external USB synthesizer I could find when I was looking about a year ago. I have no idea if it is multi-lingual or just how well plug-and-play is supported. URL: > http://www.axsol.com/decusb/ > > Sacramento is a little under 400 miles (a little over 600 kilometers) from Los Angeles. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Ari > Sent: Thu 3/31/2005 4:59 AM > To: Linux for blind general discussion > Cc: > Subject: synthesizers > > Hi all, > In June my teacher is going to America, so I'm trying to see if she can't > get me a hardware synthesizer to start using linux. She'll be in L.a, so is > their any distributor of hardware synthesizers and adaptive technologies who > would deliver one, or near enough so that she can go their? Also, Janina > recommended to me the DoubleTalk, but are their other options that are > multi-lingual? I've heard of one called Keynote Gold, and I see it's > compatible with speakup, but is the quality of speech good, how much more > expensive is it, what languages does it come in, and who sells it? The > DoubleTalk connects via a serial > port, so I'm guessing that I'll need to install drivers for it everytime, is > their any synthesizer that is plug-and-play USB which gets detected and > recognised automatically? > Thanks > Ari > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list