Octavian: You can complain, or you can put up with it and learn. If you spend your time around here complaining that your glass is half empty, no one is going to talk with you for very long. If you decide to focus on things that work, instead of things that don't ... If you decide your glass is half full, as our English proverb goes, you'll find lots of help. You've got a lot of demands for someone who can't afford to buy the things that make Linux speech sound better. Or can you? If you're looking for free, take what you have. If you want to spend money, we know some folks that will sell you things. On Mon, 20 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > The sound quality of DecTalk PC 1 is very bad. > It uses an 8 bith sound encription and it has a bad noise. > The voice is not very good also. Via voice is pretty good. > I wish I could do something to stop it crashing. > Teddy, > orasnita at home.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 6:20 AM > Subject: Re: interesting experiment. > > > Did you say you have a DEC Talk internal? Use it. > > On Mon, 20 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > > > Ok, at least I know what is the problem now. > > Are there any better software sinthesizers than Via voice that can work > > with emacspeak? > > I don't care too much about responsiveness. I care about the sound > quality. > > > > Thanks. > > Teddy, > > orasnita at home.ro > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 7:58 AM > > Subject: Re: interesting experiment. > > > > > > I believe he is speaking of ViaVoice, and it does crash. Now, if > > the source were available, someone of us would undoubtedly have > > solved this issue. But it isn't. > > > > So, don't blame Linux. Blame IBM and the Windows mindset that > > they brought to Linux in ViaVoice. > > > > On Sun, 19 May 2002, Cecil H. Whitley wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Just a minor question, are you speaking of viavoice outloud for windows > or > > > linux?? Things crashing under windows is normal, expected behavior. I > > > would go so far as to inquire if possibly there is a "crashed_recently" > > > variable within windows along with a random countdown timer...... > > > Regards, > > > Cecil > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita at home.ro> > > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > > Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 8:45 PM > > > Subject: Re: interesting experiment. > > > > > > > > > > Do you mean that using Emacspeak is easier than using Windows? > > > > Nice joke. Really. > > > > And ... without a hardware sinthesizer, with that IBM Via Voice that > > likes > > > > to crash so often, or other software sinthesizers hard to understand, > > ... > > > > Teddy, > > > > orasnita at home.ro > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Ann Parsons" <akp at eznet.net> > > > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > > > Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 11:53 PM > > > > Subject: Re: interesting experiment. > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > Why don't you try Emacspeak and quit yawping! There *is* a speech > > > > output system that uses software speech. > > > > > > > > Ann P. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Ann K. Parsons > > > > email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 > > > > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > > > > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are > lost." > > > > JRRT > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > Technology Research and Development > > Governmental Relations Group > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > > http://www.openebook.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
