On 7/28/05, James B. Byrne <ByrneJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am setting up a laptop (Sony VAIO PCG-4?) for my learning disabled
> son (age 11). I have previously used MicroSoft 2Kpro and XPpro /
> Office 2K platforms for text-to-speech applications as that is what
> most commercial LD Assist software is written for. However, with MS
> now requiring that one inventories ones entire computer software
> configuration with them before getting updates to their software
> coupled with the high risk nature of doing without those updates, I
> am reluctant to continue this practice.
No Comment.
> What I am looking for is a robust, good quality, text-to-speech
> reader that can work with Open Office under CentOS4. I have googled
> extensively but frankly I need a bit of guidance as to what is the
> best of breed available. If the package uses/supports ATT Natural
> Voices as an option then that would be wonderful as I already have
> the necessary licences for those voices. Does anyone here have any
> experience with this type of software and can recommend a particular
> package? Commercial apps. are fine. It is functionality I am after,
> not economies.
The only text to speech app that I'm familiar with on the linux side
is Festival, which is included in the base centos repository. Apart
from that I haven't had much experience, but I've got a few links that
I can provide to hopefully point you in a decent direction. They're
not part of the default centos, but if they seem like what you want,
feel free request a build. I'm sure there's enough people here willing
to help.
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/ <-- Gnome Accessibility project
http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html <-- Screen Reader for Gnome
http://lars.atrc.utoronto.ca/current.html <-- general accessibility
resource site
http://www.eklhad.net/linux/jupiter/ <-- Console kernel level screen reader.
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/voice/viavoice/dev/index.shtml <-- IBM
ViaVoice for Linux
--
Jim Perrin
System Administrator -UIT
Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
