Hi Hart,
I just wanted to clarify, LSR is not a distro itself it is like orca, a
screen reader for the gnome desktop. I probably would recommend Orca, as it
is more developed than LSR is. The only voices I don't mind that come with
Linux is Festival. It is ok but it kind of mumbles I have not tried free tts
because it never worked. I don't know about YASR, but I do know that Speakup
can be gotten to work with software speech, and I believe you can use
TTSynth if I'm not mistaken.
HTH
Cody
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From: "Hart Larry" <chime@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Blinux Discussion List" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:37 PM
Subject: LSR-and-Speech?
Hi All: I am thinking of nuking windows off my laptop--and considering
what screen-readers-and-speech will be most enjoyable?
First of all, with the small size of lsr, is it a live CD similar to
Oralux?
Next, if I ran LSR would I also want a separate console screen-reader such
as speakup or YASR?
In reading the lsr homepage-and-FAQ, I didn't think it was clear which
speech engines already come out-of-the-box? It mentions support for
several, which I will paste, however, I will put a number sign in front of
ones I have already heard:
Supported speech engines include #Festival, #Eloquence, Loquendo, Cepstral
Swift, #Cepstral Theta, #Espeak, and FreeTTS.
Now, they talk about testing both IBM TTSynth and Eliquence, I thought
they are basicly the same voices?
Now, in the 13-and-a-half-years I've had a PC, so far my favorite speech
has been Dec-Talk 4.2C and Eliquence. Would I like any of these other
speech engines? There was a US/Russian speech which came with Oralux
which I didn't mind.
And lastly, would TT Synth work with YASR?
Thanks so much in advance for answering these questions-and-sharing your
individual viewpoints
Hart
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