The trouble with forcing software speech to be the only available choice would be if you wanted to use audio on your system. It works fine for playing using cards like sblive, but there's no way to tell the card to record all but the software speech, or have a separate output that has only speech and one with only other sound for recording. At 09:19 AM 12/12/00 -0600, you wrote: >On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > >> Excellent points, Brian. There is one more point to be made - a software >> synthesizer is not only demanding of memory but of CPU power. That means >> if speakup relied on a software synthesizer it would not run on minimum >> systems, and there is a lot of need for minimum systems to be accessible, > >While the above is quite true, not developing something because it won't >run on a minimal PC is not good. That promotes staying second class. But >also if there is a software speech option, it will allow more >options. First, it is (unfortunately) cheaper to get a system capable of >running software speech then to buy any other then the lowest cost >synths. Second, most newer laptops have sound built in. The laptop market >is saddled with less then ideal to begin with. But having to carry an >external synth negates some of the advantages previously enjoyed. > >======= >Kirk Wood >Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > >Cluelessness > There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of > inquisitive idiots > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > Call me at Keen.com, Your Live Answer Community. http://www.Keen.com/bharding?ref=1
